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• Monique de Beurs
• Sharin Marie Boissevain, San Rafael
• Wobke Kotterer, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jozef Luyten
• Guido Emile Bohré, IJsselstein († 1996)

• Antonie Hermanus Gerardus (Ton) de Kok (66), Schiedam
• Anna Helene KUHLMANN (89), Oldenburg, Duitsland
• Alfred van Gescher (85)
• Andries ZWART (55)
• Anna Catharina van de Weijden (76)
• Antonia Smorenburg (87), Soesterberg
• Antonie-Hermanus DE KOK (66), Schiedam(Nl)
• Catharina van Riet (69), Noordwijkerhout
• Antonius Johannes ter Haar (77), Eindhoven, 5600, Nederland
• Betsy Lamberta BEER (74), Amsterdam

• 1978 » Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist
• 1979 » Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 » Kenyon Coleman, American football player
• 1979 » Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
• 1979 » Rachel Corrie, American author and activist († 2003)
• 1979 » Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 » Charlie Hunnam, English actor
• 1980 » Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player and model
• 1980 » Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer

• 1969 » Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1975 » Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1975 » Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher and civil rights activist (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Issam Sartawi, Palestinian activist (b. 1935)
• 1985 » Zisis Verros, Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle (b. 1880)
• 1986 » Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

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.
• January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• 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 » Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

The temperature on April 10, 1979 was between 7.7 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.