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• Evi De Pooter, Herentals († 2015)
• Anna Johanna Margaretha van Valkenburg, Utrecht,1013,Utrecht,Nederland

• Albert Ribbink (83), Palmerston (Canada)
• Brigetta Gerdiena Sneeuw (61), Noordwijkerhout
• Annetje Bakker (88), Huizen
• Cecil Jones (79), Thornbury, Victoria, Australia
• Angelo Carlucci (83), Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Bruinis Veldhuizen (54), Arnhem,GD
• Bertha Antonia Siwes (73)
• Corrie KUIPERS (74), Lowell, Mass
• van Holstein (80)
• Adele ·ÄúDee·Äù B√§ck (81)

• 1976 » Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Chris Horn, American football player
• 1978 » Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player
• 1978 » Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
• 1979 » Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
• 1979 » Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 » Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player
• 1979 » Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach
• 1981 » Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
• 1981 » Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist

• 1967 » Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)
• 1976 » Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915)
• 1979 » Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (b. 1909)

• 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 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• September 7 » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
• November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

The temperature on July 13, 1979 was between 11.6 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.