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• Randal James de Leeuw, Edson Alberta Canada († 1998)
• Isabel Coppens

• Adrian Wittman (55)
• Arie Johannes Simplicius van der Sluis (68), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Rijzinga (85)
• Agatha Maria Spithoven (77), maurik
• Cornelis Karel Smans (67), Dongen
• August Neumann (91), Huckarde, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Bertha Maria RIBBENS (79), Merelbeke
• Amelia Augusta Vrancken (73), Rillaar, Brabant, Belgium
• Catharina Groenen (84), Brunssum
• Berend Schuttrups (71)

• 1979 » Alexander Resch, German luger
• 1979 » Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 » Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer
• 1979 » Cesare Natali, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Imany, French singer
• 1979 » Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director
• 1979 » Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
• 1979 » Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka
• 1979 » Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
• 1979 » Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer

• 1975 » Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Harry Wyld, British cyclist (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)

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 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
• June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
• July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
• August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
• November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
• December 23 » Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.

The temperature on April 5, 1979 was between 0.7 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.