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• Roy Voorveld († 1995)
• Emily Madeleine Ines Grooss († 2006)
• Brian Jason Meidam
• Monique de Vries
• Rick Eerkes, Terneuzen
• Alexander Abarra

• Andries Broertjes (56), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Arnold Eduard Suers (55), Sydney ( Australie)
• * Hendrika (Drika) van Berlo (74), Veghel
• Adriana Johanna (Sjaan) van Eeuwen (83)
• Adriana Petronella Roobeek (66)
• Arie Adrianus Breedveld (76), Nieuw-Lekkerland
• Cacique Jatahy Accioly (76), São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria van Kessel (84), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Schouwenaars (84), Tilburg,Tilburg,Noord Babant,Nederland
• Bartholomeus Johan Frederik de Vogel (64), Amsterdam

• 1977 » Narain Karthikeyan, Indian race car driver
• 1977 » Terry Ryan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
• 1979 » Evans Soligo, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Karen Elson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and model
• 1980 » Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
• 1980 » Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
• 1981 » Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian footballer
• 1981 » Concepción Montaner, Spanish long jumper
• 1981 » Hyleas Fountain, American heptathlete

• 1977 » Anaïs Nin, French-American essayist and memoirist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Robert Ardrey, American-South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1981 » G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 » John O'Grady, Australian author and poet (b. 1907)

• 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.
• 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 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
• October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
• November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
• November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

The temperature on January 14, 1979 was between -7.0 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.