About the day » Tuesday December 12, 1978Calender converter

• Esther Vrinzen
• Christine Karine Benny SEGERS († 2007)
• Rebecca A. van der Weit

• Cornelis Willem Noordermeer, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clotilde de Silva (80), Munich (München), 09184, Allemagne
• Annigje Clasina Jannigje Stam (79)
• Aaltje Spin (45)
• Angela D'heuvaert (76), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Schoenmakers (92), Rotterdam
• Aletta Maria de Waal (80), Aranos, Namibia
• Cornelis Willem Noordermeer (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clotilda de Silva (80), München, Bayern, Allemagne
• Anneke Clasina Jannigje Stam (79)

• 1976 » Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
• 1976 » Dan Hawkins, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1977 » Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Dean Macey, English decathlete and bobsledder
• 1977 » Yoel Hernández, Cuban hurdler
• 1978 » Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Gbenga Akinnagbe, American actor and screenwriter
• 1978 » Shin Seung-hwan, South Korean actor
• 1979 » John Salmons, American basketball player
• 1979 » Nate Clements, American football player

• 1970 » Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
• 1970 » George Terwilliger, American director and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1971 » David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Yechezkel Kutscher, Israeli philologist and linguist (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Richard Baggallay, English colonel and cricketer (b. 1884)
• 1976 » Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1978 » Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager (b. 1938)

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. Jessica
9. Jennifer
10. Esther
11. Wendy
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.
• May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• September 5 » Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
• September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

The temperature on December 12, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.