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

• Amerik Hoek (28), Leiden
• Derkje Bouman (85), Amsterdam
• Amerik Bouwensz Hoek (28), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evert Cornelis Verschoor (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Albert DE BONDT (64), Brugge,8000,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• David Lorwa (78), Rotterdam
• Antonia Martina van Beers (85), Heerenveen, 8448, Nederland
• Elisa Anthonis (79), Brecht
• Dolph James CAMPBELL (87), Belleville
• Adriaan Leendert Bakker (75), Westerschouwen, Zeeland, 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)

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. Erik
14. Paul
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.
• January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• 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 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
• October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.

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.