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• Wilhemina Ingeborg van den Dool, Gorinchem († 1985)
• Patrick Ferdinand Jansen, Alphen aan den Rijn,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Benjamin Ervin Oakley (21)
• Cornelis Klos (79)
• Alida Catharina Beentjes (8), Castricum
• Bernarda J. GRONDMAN (67), Enschede, Nederland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Adreas Schaapsmeerders (59), Boxtel
• Afke Girbesz Kerkstra (64), Sneek
• Clifford Chessman Dunham (69), Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Demarteau (69), Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alma Abels (62), Duluth, Minnesota
• Anna Grada (Grada) Roukens (86), Hoogeveen

• 1977 » Joaquín Benoit, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 » Martin Laursen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1979 » Derek Paravicini, English pianist
• 1979 » Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
• 1979 » Friedrich Michau, German rugby player
• 1979 » Juliet Rylance, English actress
• 1979 » Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Dave Baksh, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1980 » Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1980 » Robert Gallery, American football player

• 1964 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
• 1984 » Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
• 1984 » George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)
• 1986 » W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
• 1988 » Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
• 1992 » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1993 » Matthew Ridgway, American general (b. 1895)

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. Erik
14. Paul
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. Nathalie

• 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.
• April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
• April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• November 21 » The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
• December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

The temperature on July 26, 1979 was between 13.7 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.