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• Josien Adriana Anna Maria Buijs, Breda

• Cornelis Wilhelmus Anthonius Muller (76), Delft
• Clara T RUNDE (84), East Dubuque, Jo Daviess, Illinois
• Arie de ZEEUW (93), Valkenswaard
• Benard Asche (78), Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Arien Vlam (80), Philadelphia (Narbreth)
• Albertus Joseph Groenhuijsen (85), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Hartendorf (69), Boppard
• Anna Hubertina Fraiponts (72), Zonhoven
• Adrianus van den Berg (84)
• Allie Nieman (66), Groningen Nederland

• 1976 » Geno Carlisle, American basketball player
• 1976 » Nicolás Lapentti, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1977 » Kenyan Weaks, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 » Michael Klim, Polish-Australian swimmer
• 1978 » Dwight Smith, American football player
• 1979 » Corey Patterson, American baseball player
• 1979 » Román Colón, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 » Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
• 1980 » Murtz Jaffer, Canadian journalist
• 1982 » Christopher Raeburn, English fashion designer

• 1971 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (b. 1949)
• 1975 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (b. 1901)
• 1978 » Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (b. 1944)
• 1979 » Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Tigran Petrosian, Georgian-Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Helen Mack, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Larkin I. Smith, American police officer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1989 » Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
• 1991 » James Roosevelt, American general and politician (b. 1907)

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 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• 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.
• June 20 » ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.

The temperature on August 13, 1979 was between 14.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.