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• Antje Kloosterman (80), -
• Antje Renzes Kloosterman (80), Visvliet
• Aaltje de Boer (69), Ontario, Canada
• Bernardine Janssen (71), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Berber Kalksma (72), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Zorn (67), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Blok (65), Woerden
• ? ? (73)
• Arthur Nelson (79), Princeton, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Beulah Winter

• 1978 » Dominic Cooper, English actor
• 1978 » Justin Long, American actor
• 1978 » Luke Williamson, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 » Nikki Cox, American actress
• 1978 » Yi So-yeon, biotechnologist and astronaut, the first Korean in space
• 1979 » Butterfly Boucher, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1979 » Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
• 1979 » Natalia Rodríguez, Spanish runner
• 1980 » Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
• 1980 » Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American drummer

• 1974 » Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b. 1949)
• 1976 » Juan José Torres, Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
• 1976 » Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 1977 » Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish-born American actor (b. 1931)
• 1978 » Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1895)
• 1979 » Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1982 » Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)

• 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 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
• 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.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.
• December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

The temperature on June 2, 1979 was between 12.2 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.