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• Cor Spanninga, Aduard († 2019)
• Jan-Harm Gerrit Jan Wouter Bastiaan Hakkers († 1994)
• Raoul Michiel Kuijs, IJsselstein, Gelderland, Nederland († 2023)
• Sylvia Verhagen, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2013)

• Antonia Maria Elisabeth Snels (66), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Bene van der Schuur (83)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Schaik (88), Utrecht, UT, Nederland
• Bettie A. Holt (81), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anita M. Wisselink (92)
• Albertus Dees (91), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alberta Perik (65), Wierden
• Adrianus Henricus Josephus van de Poel (82), Tilburg
• Aaltje Kroon (83), Putten
• "Edouard" Léon Mathilde Marie Joseph Ghislain de Saint Hubert (62), Uccle, Bruxelles, Belgique

• 1977 » Ivonne Teichmann, German runner
• 1978 » Josh Hancock, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1979 » Josh Server, American actor
• 1979 » Malcolm Christie, English footballer
• 1979 » Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1979 » Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
• 1981 » Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• 1981 » Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 » Ernst Ziegler, German actor (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Indian author and activist (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)
• 1981 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Bunny Ahearne, Irish-born English businessman (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
• 1985 » John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)

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 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
• April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
• November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
• November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

The temperature on April 11, 1979 was between 9.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.