About the day » Thursday August 2, 1979Calender converter

• Trevor Lyman Jochems
• Brett Andrew SHEPHEARD, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1979)

• Aleida Rolink (92), Beuningen
• Albertha Johanna Olthof (88), Warnsveld
• Anna Margaretha Verweij (166), Geldermalsen
• Christiaan van Lith (Lit) (83)
• * Neeltje Bel (75), Leerdam
• Cornelis Houtman (79), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cecilia van Kampen (64), Haarlem
• Bertus Nienhuis (55), Ten Boer
• Catherine J. Reith (70), Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Ana Hubertina Schoutrop

• 1977 » Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1978 » Deividas Šemberas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1978 » Dragan Vukmir, Serbian footballer
• 1978 » Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
• 1978 » Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
• 1979 » Marco Bonura, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan runner
• 1980 » Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1981 » Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and boxer
• 1981 » Tim Murtagh, Irish-English cricketer

• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
• 1973 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1974 » Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1976 » László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Antony Noghès, French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1981 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900)
• 1983 » James Jamerson, American bass player (b. 1936)

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

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. Jennifer
15. Patricia
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.
• March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
• September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
• October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
• November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
• November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
• November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

The temperature on August 2, 1979 was between 14.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.