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• Erik ter Horst

• Filippus van der Schuur (65), Hoogezand
• Gabriella Prudentia Clerick (71), Wetteren
• Camille VANDERLINDEN (79), Antwerpen, Provincie Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgie
• Geertruida Vermeer (86), Hilversum
• Bernardus Gerhardus Paus (60), Hellendoorn
• Geertje Kraal (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Petronella Voermans (93), Breda
• Bernardus Mak (82)
• Antoine Marie Jean Séguier (87)
• Abel De Wijn (90), Amsterdam Noord Holland (NL)

• 1976 » Pedro Collins, Barbadian cricketer
• 1977 » Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
• 1977 » Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor († 2010)
• 1977 » Plaxico Burress, American football player
• 1978 » Chris Chambers, American football player
• 1978 » Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Austra Skujytė, Lithuanian pentathlete
• 1979 » Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
• 1979 » D. J. Houlton, American baseball player
• 1979 » Ian Hutchinson, English motorcycle racer

• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
• 1983 » Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1985 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
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. Jennifer
9. Jessica
10. Esther
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
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.
• January 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
• March 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
• December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.

The temperature on August 12, 1978 was between 6.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.