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• Melissa Mae Heim, Panorama City, California († 1985)
• Joseph Adam Bonnema, Hammond, Lake County, Indiana († 2002)
• Matilda Alvey, Marion County, Kentucky († 1979)

• Ernst Josef Abrahamsson (85), Östersidan, Skaftö (O)
• Cornelis Petrus Spigt (83), Spaarndam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elze Frieda Gouwe (53)
• Fernande Jeanne Célina HELLER (79), Neuilly-sur-Marne,93330,Seine-Saint-Denis,Île-de-France,FRANCE
• Alida Kroeze (85), Groningen
• Gardina Hendrika Hennink (89), Zutphen
• Jan van der Kooi (75), Rijnsburg
• Adriana Baauw (65), Vlaardingen
• van Dyke (73)
• Cornelis de Zoete (65), Monster(ZH)

• 1976 » Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
• 1976 » Sally Hawkins, English actress
• 1979 » Natasha Chokljat, Australian netball player
• 1979 » Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian wrestler
• 1979 » Will Boyd, American bass player
• 1980 » Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 » Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
• 1980 » Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
• 1981 » Joey Gathright, American baseball player
• 1981 » Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer

• 1967 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
• 1969 » René Barrientos, Bolivian soldier, pilot, and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
• 1970 » Arthur Shields, Irish rebel and actor (b. 1896)
• 1972 » Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
• 1973 » Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver and polo player (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Fred Bear, American hunter and author (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927)
• 1992 » Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)

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.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
• December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

The temperature on April 27, 1979 was between 2.3 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.