About the day » Tuesday August 8, 1978Calender converter

• Jennie Hekman, Radewijk († 1979)
• bert rutten, helden-beringe
• Ferdi van den Toorn, Wassenaar
• (Stillborn) KORT, Rutten Flevoland Netherlands († 1978)
• Jennie Hekman, Radewijk, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland († 1979)
• Tina Maree HARRIS, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia († 1978)
• Bas van Stenis († 2011)
• Daan Tolen, Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland († 2008)

• Ernestina Thomaz (68)
• Cornelis Roozen (78), Oudenbosch, 4731, Nederland
• Charlottie Larsen (88), Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, United States of America
• Catharina Magdalena Vercouteren (80), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• (Stillborn) KORT (0), Rutten Flevoland Netherlands
• Cornelia Johanna van Groenestein (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Bos (55)
• Elisabeth de Boer (71), Schagen
• Bastiaan van der Windt (71), Delft
• Ana Flora Pinheiro Foz (81), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1977 » Darren Manzella, American sergeant († 2013)
• 1977 » Lindsay Sloane, American actress
• 1977 » Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 » Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist
• 1977 » Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1978 » Alan Maybury, Irish footballer and coach
• 1978 » Louis Saha, French footballer
• 1978 » Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
• 1979 » Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
• 1979 » Richard Harwood, English cellist

• 1971 » Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1882)
• 1975 » Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1979 » Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (b. 1910)
• 1980 » Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1982 » Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. Mark
5. David
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
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. Jennifer
9. Jessica
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.
• January 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• November 23 » The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
• November 27 » In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

The temperature on August 8, 1978 was between 10.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.