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• Jacob Willem Heemskerk, Katwijk († 1978)
• tim gerardus petronella (tim) timmermans, tegelen
• Carole Martine VANDERLENNE, Cherbourg-Octeville,50100,Manche,Normandie,FRANCE († 2000)
• Ted L. Rogers († 1996)
• Tom Petrus Maria Manders, Horst, Limburg, Netherlands († 1979)
• Philip Michael Claar, Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pennsylvania († 1978)

• CYRILLUS VAN LAERE (66), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Cornelius van der Meijden (80), Schijndel
• Augusta de Swaef (65), Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albertus Theodorus van Schooten (69), Alkmaar
• Andries Gerrit Kelder (69), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Christian J Staser (71), Yamhill, Oregon, United States
• Adrianus Gerardus van Nimwegen (68), Vlagtwedde
• Derk Jan van de Maat (76), Wierden
• "Gabrielle" Victoire Clotilde Marie de Marchant et d'Ansembourg (91), Louvain, Belgique
• Albert Smink (48), Joure, haskerland.fr.nld

• 1976 » Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• 1976 » Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Will Friedle, American actor and screenwriter
• 1977 » Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Charlotte Leslie, British politician
• 1978 » Isy Suttie, English comedian, musician, actress, and writer
• 1978 » Lillian Nakate, Ugandan politician
• 1978 » Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
• 1979 » Walter Ayoví, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)
• 1979 » J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
• 1980 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Tom Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–American chemist and chess player (b. 1916)
• 1986 » János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)

• 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.
• February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
• April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• 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.
• October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
• November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.

The temperature on August 11, 1978 was between 9.9 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.