About the day » Sunday July 16, 1978Calender converter

• Hannelore Descheemaeker, Roeselare († 2008)
• Loreen Joy Korringa, Grand Rapids († 1999)

• Cornelis Morren (76), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Arthur Waterton Todd (84), Millicent and District Hospital, Millicent, South Australia, Australia
• Cornelia Plugge (76), Scheveningen
• Arnoldus Franciscus Johannes Vasen (78), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice VANDEWALLE (79), Menin,8930,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Oosterveen (81), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Theodorus Verkleij (65), Leiden
• Cornelius van der Kloot (86), Achtmaal
• Alzira Stahl (60), Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Daniel Wolfert Jumelet (80), Delft Zhl. NL

• 1976 » Anna Smashnova, Belarusian-Israeli tennis player
• 1976 » Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguayan footballer
• 1976 » Tomasz Kuchar, Polish race car driver
• 1977 » Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient († 2006)
• 1979 » Chris Mihm, American basketball player
• 1979 » Kim Rhode, American sport shooter
• 1979 » Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer
• 1979 » Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
• 1979 » Nathan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Adam Scott, Australian golfer

• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1982 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• 1985 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
• 1991 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Peter
8. Johannes
9. Patrick
10. Michael
11. Robert
12. Pieter
13. Richard
14. Paul
15. Bart
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Patricia
5. Marieke
6. Linda
7. Monique
8. Jessica
9. Jennifer
10. Wendy
11. Esther
12. Kim
13. Anna
14. Bianca
15. Cornelia
16. Cindy

• 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 13.9 million citizens.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
• August 22 » The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.
• September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

The temperature on July 16, 1978 was between 7.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.