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• Margriet Tot, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Kenny Bautil († 1979)
• Anika Pia van Steenbergen, Scheveningen

• Bert Sheldon Wertz (71), Taylor Township, Grafton County, Pennsylvania
• Arjen Veenstra (53), Ureterp (gemeente Opsterland)
• Antje Arends Hoekstra (79), Nijega
• Aukje Jellema (79), Haren, Groningen, Netherlands
• Agnes VANDEROSTYNE (55), Canby (Yellow Medicine County ),Minnesota,U.S.A.
• Audie Hayden Boatwright (77)
• Catherine Maria Burns (85), Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Annegina Olfina Veldhuis (77), Zweeloo, Nederland
• Albertus Franciscus Vrancken (64), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arie van Ekelenburg (72), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, NL

• 1978 » André Macanga, Angolan footballer and manager
• 1978 » Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Eddie House, American basketball player
• 1978 » Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 » Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1979 » Clinton Morrison, English-Irish footballer
• 1979 » Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1979 » Edwige Lawson-Wade, French basketball player
• 1980 » Pavel Londak, Estonian footballer
• 1980 » Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer

• 1973 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)
• 1979 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• 1982 » Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Roger J. Traynor, American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Walter Rauff, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)

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.
• February 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• September 7 » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• 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.

The temperature on May 14, 1979 was between 8.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.