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• Chris van de Kuilen, Amsterdam
• Tamara Renee van TIL († 1997)

• Bessie Reesink (90), Muscatine, IA (US)
• Angenietje Schaap (82), Amsterdam
• Douwe Antonius Cornelis de Vries (51), Den Helder
• Arij George Leeflang (92), Koudekerke
• Eugene Louis Martin Herman Muskens (72), Nieuw-Loosdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Beenes Idzerda (68), Tijnje
• Cornelus van Uden (61), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Michael VAN Zyl (53)
• Everhardus Driessen (84), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Eliza Prentiss (78), Cooley Cem., Greene County, Ms

• 1976 » Troy Glaus, American baseball player
• 1977 » Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist and footballer
• 1977 » Justin Lehr, American baseball player
• 1977 » Tom Brady, American football player
• 1978 » Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
• 1978 » Jenny Tinmouth, English motorcycle racer
• 1978 » Joi Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 » Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
• 1979 » Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model and actress
• 1980 » Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter

• 1969 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (b. 1913)
• 1973 » Richard Marshall, American general (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)

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. Esther
10. Jessica
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.
• February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
• April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
• July 25 » Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
• July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
• December 10 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The temperature on August 3, 1978 was between 14.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.