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• Frans Zwiers († 1990)
• Rutger Lippits, Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• Albert SCHIETTECATTE (69)
• Elisabeth (Beth) Veenstra (78), Coevorden
• Antonius Frederik de Vries (84), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ella Dozy (95), Groesbeek
• Elisabeth Meyers (73), Bilzen BE (WW, Amelsdorp)
• Constant Hendrik Haffmans (80)
• Ella (zus) Dozij (Dozy) (95), Groesbeek
• Bertha Suzanne Van Ysacker (85), Oostnieuwkerke
• Anna Maria Cornelia van Mol (78), Zeelst (Veldhoven) (Noord-Brabant)
• Arend Keur (84), Zandvoort

• 1976 » Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 » Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1978 » Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1978 » Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
• 1978 » Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
• 1979 » Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1979 » Foxy Brown, American rapper
• 1979 » Low Ki, American wrestler
• 1979 » Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer

• 1972 » Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre
• 1974 » Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1978 » Max Decugis, French tennis player (b. 1882)
• 1978 » Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
• 1979 » Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)

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. 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.
• March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• September 8 » Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700–3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
• December 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
• December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

The temperature on September 6, 1978 was between 9.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.