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• Guilherme Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1991)
• Boudewijn Mulders

• Antonius H. Beekman (54), Apeldoorn
• Bernardus Johannes Sehlhoff (66), amsterdam, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Johannes Poell (70), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Andrée BAUDET (53), Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, 25121, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Antonius Franciscus Hubertus Poell (70), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius H (Teun) Beekman (54), Apeldoorn
• Alexander Johnson (0)
• Bouwe Luinstra (68), Kollum
• Annelies Knoester (10), Den Haag
• Poldervaart, Jan (79), Nieuwenhoorn

• 1978 » Chris Stapleton, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 » Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1978 » Milton Bradley, American baseball player
• 1978 » Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
• 1980 » Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and author
• 1980 » Billy Yates, American football player
• 1980 » James Foster, English cricketer
• 1980 » Patrick Carney, American drummer, musician, and producer
• 1980 » Raül López, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 » Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player

• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)

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. Erik
14. Paul
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 30 » A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
• October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
• October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• 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 April 15, 1979 was between 10.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.