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• Eric Apeldoorn, Heemskerk († 2006)
• Jennifer Lynn ZENTZ, Goshen († 1980)
• Nicolette de Bruijn, Rotterdam
• Aaron Conner, Bountiful, Davis, Utah

• Engelbertus Goossens (75)
• Aaltje Hut (86), De Wijk (Drenthe)
• Anna Schmidt (89)
• Douwe Martens (David) Kuiken (89), Boones Mill Franklin Virgina, Verenigde Staten
• Dollie Elizabeth Cullers (84), Winchester City, Virginia, United States of America
• Aloïs Robert Charles Louis Decraene (82), Waregem, 8790, België
• Cornelis Kaandorp (68), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Adriana Vader (78), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Edna E. Defendahl (78), Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth de Regt (90), SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1977 » Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1978 » Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish illustrator
• 1978 » Walter Samuel, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 » Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player
• 1979 » Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
• 1981 » Brett Young, American country music singer
• 1981 » Erin Crocker, American race car driver
• 1981 » Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder
• 1981 » Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player

• 1972 » Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940)
• 1985 » Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (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. 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.
• April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
• April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
• May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
• November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
• November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on March 23, 1979 was between -2.5 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.