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• Emmy Martina van Weerden, Doesburg, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1987)
• Trijntje Snijders, Emmen
• Emmy Martiena van Weerden, Doesburg († 1987)

• Antje Guurtje van Vuure (66), Soest
• alida HUIJSER (92), ridderkerk
• Anna Eliza COERTJENS (72)
• Aukje Trijntje Braaksma (57), Wierum
• Anne Brunia (53), Nieuw Weerdinge
• Adrianus Nuijens (70), Edam
• Adrianus Jan Gerardus Beurskens (66), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alma ALLEENE (78), Merelbeke,9820,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Wilhelmina Helena Prevoo Prevot (71)
• Arnoldus Franciscus Joannes VERMEER (65), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1977 » Andrew Ross Sorkin, American journalist and author
• 1977 » Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 » Ola Salo, Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1978 » Ben Gummer, English scholar and politician
• 1978 » Immortal Technique, Peruvian-American rapper
• 1979 » Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player and manager
• 1980 » Dwight Freeney, American football player
• 1980 » Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1980 » Mike Miller, American basketball player
• 1981 » Beth Ditto, American singer

• 1969 » Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Ralph Edward Flanders, (b. 1890) US Senator from Vermont.
• 1972 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
• 1973 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Anthony Crosland, English captain and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1918)
• 1977 » Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1983 » Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1988 » André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

• 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 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
• November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
• December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

The temperature on February 19, 1979 was between -4.9 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.