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• Jan Post, Urk († 2010)
• Judith Hananja Kalter, Zutphen
• Floyd van der Vlist († 2011)
• Niels Böhmer, Zaandam, Nederland
• Wouter Jochem Kamp, Uithoorn († 1984)

• Cornelia Elisabeth Bastiaens (64), Maastricht, Nederland
• Alphonse V Poirier (84), Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of America
• Abraham van der Vliet (86), Broward, Florida, United States
• Eildert Roelofs Hazekamp (59), Groningen
• Elizabeth (Betty) Ambergen (51), Christchurch NZ
• Christianus Bartholomeus (71), Eindhoven
• Eliza van der Lugt (91)
• Cornelis (cor) leeflang (82), Amsterdam
• Bernardus Johannes Gerhardus Kamphuis (65), Denekamp
• Dinardus Braam (74), Emmen, Nederland

• 1973 » Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player
• 1973 » Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player
• 1974 » Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
• 1975 » Adam Deadmarsh, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
• 1978 » Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer
• 1981 » Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
• 1981 » Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player
• 1983 » Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and politician, Swedish Minister of Education
• 1984 » Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)

• 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.
• February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
• July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• 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).
• November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
• 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.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on May 10, 1979 was between 4.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.