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• Lennart Zuur († 2018)
• Daniel van Gurp
• Jared Jon Poortinga, Hammond )Lake), Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Nicolaas Daniel Maurits Guillermo, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Shane Curtis Lormans, Gore (NZ) († 1979)
• Nicolás Daniel Mauricio Guillermo

• Clarabelle Eva Magrew (66), Cocoa, Brevard, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Aleida Tappel (71), Weiteveen
• Arie Schelling (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Follena Sinnema (74), Amsterdam
• Charlotte Dorothea de Jong (77), Ermelo
• Cora Blanche Stewart (89)
• Antje Ennes Faber (83)
• Arie Schelling (62), 's-Gravendeel,Zuid Holland,Netherlands
• Berendina Sprink (77), Bellingwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Allegonda van den Kieboom (92)

• 1977 » Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
• 1977 » Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player
• 1978 » Adam Busch, American actor, director, and producer
• 1978 » Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 » Tamera Mowry, American actress and producer
• 1978 » Tia Mowry, American actress and producer
• 1979 » Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Nic Cester, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Eva Green, French actress and model
• 1980 » Joell Ortiz, American rapper

• 1971 » Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (b. 1907)
• 1978 » Babe Paley, American socialite and fashion style icon (b. 1915)
• 1979 » Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 1986 » Jagjivan Ram, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1908)
• 1989 » János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, Hungarian Minister of the Interior (b. 1912)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. Dennis
8. David
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. Nathalie

• 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 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
• October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
• October 17 » The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.

The temperature on July 6, 1979 was between 10.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.