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• Jan Arie Netjes, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2007)
• Sandra Jozefina Wilhelmina Leonarda (Sandra) Bodelier, Kerkrade
• Davy Everaert, Aalst
• Isabel Houben, Maasbracht († 2018)

• Arjen Arjensz Miedema (77), Leeuwarden, fr.nld
• Beert Zwep (80), Den Haag
• Carl W Becks (61), North Olmsted, Cuyahoga, OH
• Elisabeth Hubertina Bindels (78), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Christina ANTHONISSEN (67), Lommel Belgie
• cornelia Knobel (77), roosendaal
• Christina Draaisma (77), Peize, Nederland
• Cornelis Adam van Vliet (82)
• Anna Lindeboom (82)
• Egbert de Jonge (87)

• 1976 » Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player
• 1978 » Benjamin Burnley, American musician
• 1978 » Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1981 » Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
• 1981 » Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer
• 1982 » Kwame Brown, American basketball player
• 1983 » Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player
• 1983 » Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1983 » Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist
• 1983 » Rafe Spall, English actor

• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1958)
• 1992 » Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
• 1997 » LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (b. 1929)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• 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 14.0 million citizens.
• February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
• July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
• July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
• October 17 » The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.

The temperature on March 10, 1979 was between 1.2 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.