About the day » Wednesday February 15, 1978Calender converter

• James Roger Wesseldyk
• Reinier Zuurmond
• Michel van Osenbruggen, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1999)
• Sarah Christine Koerner

• Barbara Derom (95), Overijse
• Anna Maria Geurts (87), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Myrtle Todd (72), Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Marinus Kievit (63)
• Antje Jansdr Koedijk (74), Broek op Langedijk
• Adrianus Chrstnsz Pluijm van der (85), Leiden
• Anthonius Knoop (88), Utrecht
• Antje Jacobs Hielema (78), Marum
• Catharina Maria Albertina Wouterlood (89), Echt
• Albert Henri GUILLONNEAU (65), Menton, 06500, France

• 1975 » Annemarie Kramer, Dutch sprinter
• 1975 » Serge Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 » Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
• 1976 » Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
• 1979 » Hamish Marshall, New Zealand cricketer
• 1979 » James Marshall, New Zealand cricketer
• 1979 » Josh Low, English footballer
• 1979 » Scott Severin, Scottish footballer
• 1980 » Conor Oberst, American singer-songwriter

• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1974 » Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (b. 1926)
• 1981 » Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Avon Long, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Richard Feynman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Michael
10. Patrick
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. Esther
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
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.
• February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
• April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• April 7 » Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
• July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
• December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
• December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

The temperature on February 15, 1978 was between -3.8 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.