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• Tamara Löesink, Doetinchem
• pim johannes wilhelmus (pim) peeters, helden-dorp
• Mirjana Sladić, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jaclyn Marie Allen
• Cornelis Andries Schipper († 1995)
• Ronald Laurenthius Boots, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Ron Boots († 1996)

• Annigje de Bruijn (71), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Kuper (92)
• Antonius van de Westelaken (81), St . Quentin,,Frankrijk
• Aaltje Hendriks Dijkstra (78), Wommels
• Aalt Westerink (89), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Hubertus Adrianus Zijlmans (82), Veldhoven
• Adrianus van Hilten (69), Bergen op Zoom
• .Alejandrina Gutierrez Lopez Torrez, San Bernardino County, California, Verenigde Staten
• * Lambertus Godefridus van de Westerlo (81), Mierlo-Hout
• Adrienne Marie Laure LORTAL (95), Massy, 91377, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France

• 1975 » Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian footballer
• 1977 » Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1979 » Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
• 1981 » Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 » Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1982 » Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
• 1982 » Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist
• 1983 » Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player, forward
• 1983 » Wayne Simien, American basketball player

• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. Dennis
8. David
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. 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.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• 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).
• September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
• October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
• December 3 » In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.

The temperature on March 9, 1979 was between 1.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.