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• Erwin Princen, Bree,, Limburg, België († 2014)

• (72), Wierden, Gemeente Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Pieter de Wit (65), Breda
• Amélie Karoline Ludovika Gabriele zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (95), Hochburg-Ach (Oos)
• Antje Koopman (76), Den Helder
• Annigje VERSLUIS (68), Heemstede
• Bartje Jorts Boer (72), Terschelling
• Annigje Lucas (69)
• Amélie Karoline Ludovika Gabriele VON LÖWENSTEIN-WERTHEIM-FREUDENBERG (95), Hochburg-Ach, Oberösterreich, Austria
• Aaltje Vinke (74), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Christopher Bryon Dotinga (0), San Joaquin County, California, VS

• 1977 » Brett Prebble, Australian jockey
• 1977 » Dmitri Kulikov, Estonian footballer
• 1977 » Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player
• 1977 » Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Rachael Yamagata, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1978 » Anthony Mackie, American actor
• 1978 » Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter († 2013)
• 1979 » Bryant McKinnie, American football player
• 1979 » Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 » Ricky Davis, American basketball player

• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1971 » James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
• 1978 » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
• 1979 » Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (b. 1912)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Michael
10. Patrick
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 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
• October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
• November 3 » Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

The temperature on September 23, 1978 was between 12.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.