About the day » Saturday April 8, 1978Calender converter

• Michael Andrew Nickel, Portsmouth († 1993)
• Laurent MILLER, Bruxelles
• Justin Daniel Meyering, Forest City Comm. Hosp., Forest City, Hancock / Winnebago Co., IA († 2019)
• Samantha Dawn Malako, Lethbridge, Alberta, CA († 1979)

• Berend Lugies (82), Zuidlaren
• Adrianus Lambertus Johannes Eikemans (67), Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Benedictus NIJHOLT (57), Amsterdam(Noord Holland)
• Anna Adriana van de Akker (82)
• Casparus Olaus Wildbret (65), Amsterdam
• Arie Post (55), Schiedam
• Antoinette Minnie Te Grotenhuis (72)
• Alvyers Kramer (82), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Wolberink (96), Geesteren
• Cecile Duthoo (46), Brugge West-Vlaanderen

• 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1977 » Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
• 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)
• 1978 » Bernt Haas, Austrian-Swiss footballer
• 1978 » Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
• 1978 » Evans Rutto, Kenyan runner
• 1978 » Jocelyn Robichaud, Canadian tennis player and coach
• 1978 » Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
• 1979 » Alexi Laiho, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Amit Trivedi, Indian singer-songwriter

• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)

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. Paul
14. Richard
15. Bart
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Patricia
5. Linda
6. Marieke
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 6 » The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
• February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
• August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• November 17 » The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.
• December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.

The temperature on April 8, 1978 was between 2.6 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.