About the day » Friday January 13, 1978Calender converter

• Clarence Casper Schueth (75), Winner, Williams, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Barend Oeges Tuinstra (85), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Abib Jabor (71), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Cornelis Verheij (87)
• Clarence Armand Keeley (Lt.) (82), Vero Beach, Indian River, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Adriana Kock (68), Breda
• Daisy Mae Tosh (77), Whittier, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• August Gerhardus Majella Gockel (70), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Hoogesteger (75), Goes
• Cornelis Langmuur (74), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1976 » Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
• 1977 » Elliot Mason, English trombonist and keyboard player
• 1977 » James Posey, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 » Mi-Hyun Kim, South Korean golfer
• 1977 » Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer
• 1978 » Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
• 1979 » Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter
• 1980 » Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Krzysztof Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor
• 1980 » Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer

• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1974 » Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 » Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
• 1978 » Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1979 » Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)

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. Linda
6. Marieke
7. Monique
8. Jennifer
9. Wendy
10. Jessica
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 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
• March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
• November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

The temperature on January 13, 1978 was between -1.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.