About the day » Friday April 14, 1978Calender converter

• Mirjam Spuybroek, Hellevoetsluis, Neth
• Raymond Johannes Henricus Gehring († 2013)
• Dennis Bitter († 1978)
• Dennis Bitter, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1978)
• Marco Alfredo Guerrato, San Vito al Tagliamento

• Aegidus Henricus Vossenberg (58), Leeuwarden
• Catharina Cornelia Hoffman, 's-Gravenhage
• Cornelius Alphonsus Machielse (63), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Benedita Gagliardi (59), Campinas, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Cornelis Jan Kamp (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Cusiel (54), Groningen
• Alexander Frederik Clemens Maurits Alphons Baron Van Lamsweerde (84), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arius Dijkhuizen (73), Roodeschool (Uithuizermeeden)
• Arnoldus van Stippent (88), Wijchen
• Anna Maria Perlee (89), Amsterdam

• 1977 » Martin Kaalma, Estonian footballer
• 1977 » Nate Fox, American basketball player († 2014)
• 1977 » Rob McElhenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 » Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer
• 1978 » Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete
• 1979 » Iain Balshaw, English rugby player
• 1979 » Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer
• 1979 » Noé Pamarot, French footballer
• 1979 » Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model
• 1979 » Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player

• 1968 » Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
• 1976 » José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1978 » F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
• 1986 » Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)

• 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 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• March 16 » A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
• August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
• August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.

The temperature on April 14, 1978 was between -0.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.