About the day » Sunday January 22, 1978Calender converter

• Paul Staskywicz, Minot, Ward County, North Dakota († 2017)
• Jorgine Gosens († 1979)

• Donald G. Bridger, Sr (52), High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States
• Boudewijn Franciscus Enschedé (84), Heemstede,Gemeente Heemstede,North Holland,Netherlands
• Joosen (84), Roosendaal, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Ada Eleanor Trott (84), Lewisham, London, England
• Clara Doyle (79), Starks, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
• Charles SHARPLES (72), Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Antonia van den Berg (85), Bergen op Zoom
• Anna Hoogbruin (83), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Martinus Pardoel (80), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Cornelis Heijboer, Ter Aar (Korteraar)

• 1976 » James Dearth, American football player
• 1976 » Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Anna Linkova, Russian tennis player
• 1977 » Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1977 » Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1978 » Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1979 » Aidan Burley, New Zealand-English politician
• 1979 » Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
• 1979 » Chor Boogie, American artist

• 1971 » Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
• 1973 » Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1873)
• 1977 » Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
• 1980 » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and academic (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)

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.
• January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
• 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.
• September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
• 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.
• December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.

The temperature on January 22, 1978 was between -1.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.