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• N.N. Snippe, Hoogeveen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aimee Christine Stroink, Des Peres, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Alfred Olaf Stroink, Des Peres, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Johan Lambrechts, Herentals, 2200, Antwerpen, België
• Jamie Lyn vander Wege († 2013)
• Marijke Sarinah de Jong, Jakarta IDN, Jakarta Raya (Djakarta Raya), Indonesië († 1996)
• Diederik Hagelen, Utrecht

• Aart van Vugt (91), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gommers (66), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniel SISTERMANS (83), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hermina van der Horst (53), Leiden
• Anna Maria Coesmans (83), Voorburg, Nederland
• Clara Rakers (77)
• Anna Maria Coesmans (83), Voorburg, Nederland
• Daniël (Daan) Sistermans (83), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Bouktje Pieters Kragt (83), Kommerzijl, 9882, Nederland
• Dirk Versteeg (80), Schiedam

• 1978 » Chris Chambers, American football player
• 1978 » Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Austra Skujytė, Lithuanian pentathlete
• 1979 » Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
• 1979 » D. J. Houlton, American baseball player
• 1979 » Ian Hutchinson, English motorcycle racer
• 1980 » Dominique Swain, American actress
• 1980 » Javier Chevantón, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 » Maggie Lawson, American actress
• 1980 » Matt Thiessen, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
• 1983 » Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1985 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)

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. 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. 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.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
• October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on August 12, 1979 was between 10.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.