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• Anna Hoekstra (78)
• Aaltje Veenstra (98)
• Elizabeth van Zee (80), Des Moines-Iowa (USA)
• Cornelis den Braber (63), Oostflakkee, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelia Terreehorst (66), Heemstede
• Emiliana Deforche (98)
• Cornelis Johannes Hommelberg (72)
• Anna Hoekstra- (78)
• Dirk Martinus Veldhuizen (83), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ritskes Veenstra (98), Drachten, Nederland

• 1976 » Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
• 1976 » Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer and manager
• 1977 » Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist
• 1977 » Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager
• 1979 » Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 » Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 » Luke Young, English footballer
• 1979 » Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
• 1980 » Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player

• 1974 » Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1975 » Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1977 » Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Margaret Craven, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Nihat Erim, Turkish jurist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
• 1984 » Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. Mark
5. David
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Patrick
10. Michael
11. Robert
12. Pieter
13. Richard
14. Paul
15. Bart
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Patricia
5. Marieke
6. Linda
7. Monique
8. Jessica
9. Jennifer
10. Esther
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Anna
14. Bianca
15. Cornelia
16. Cindy

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
• June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
• June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
• July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
• August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
• September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
• October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

The temperature on July 19, 1978 was between 12.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.