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• Barry Anthony Donaghy, Ballynahaye, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 2013)
• Willem Anton van Raamsdonk († 2015)

• Anna Levina Poldervaart (84), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Susanna Elisabeth (Corrie) Witte (69), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angelique frederic Marie Henriette GOMMERS (70), Melle
• Caroline Waller (68), Putten
• Constant HILLEN (78), Zoersel(B)
• Bertha Margaretha Kooijman (81), Rotterdam (zh,nld)
• Albert Marie Joseph Eussen (82), Arnhem
• Ester Jacoba Hamelink (73), Terneuzen
• Cornelis Frederik Louwen (47), Amsterdam
• Date Mollema (66), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1976 » Necro, American rapper, producer, and director
• 1977 » Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
• 1978 » Bill Hader, Two-time Emmy winning American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer
• 1979 » Anna Torv, Australian actress
• 1979 » Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
• 1980 » Ed Moses, American swimmer
• 1981 » Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
• 1981 » Stephen Bywater, English footballer

• 1970 » E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
• 1978 » Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)
• 1980 » Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
• 1980 » Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915)

• 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.
• April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
• July 25 » In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
• October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
• 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.

The temperature on June 7, 1979 was between 9.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.