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• Ilse Caroline van Loon, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jamie Lee Todd ****, Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2005)

• Anna Maria Geerts (97), Goirle
• Antoon Willem Spaninks (90), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Apolonia Vogel (57), Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina Cornelissen (89), Apeldoorn
• Alphonsus Vincentius GEERTS (84), Balen (BE)
• Abraham Kloek (82), amsterdam, Nederland
• Alphonsus Vincentius Geerts (84), Balen, Belgium
• Anna W. van Weel-Plees (95), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Heemskerk (63), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrina Hendriks Mees (95), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1977 » Danny Murphy, English international footballer, midfielder and sportscaster
• 1977 » Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1978 » Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1978 » Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
• 1978 » Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1978 » Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
• 1979 » Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality
• 1980 » Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
• 1980 » Sébastien Frey, French footballer
• 1980 » Sophia Myles, English actress

• 1973 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
• 1977 » Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1977 » Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
• 1978 » Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1978 » Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)

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 20 » An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
• March 26 » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• September 20 » A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
• October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.

The temperature on March 18, 1979 was between -1.2 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.