About the day » Monday May 22, 1978Calender converter

• René Sonke, Eindhoven († 2005)
• Mikel John Severson, Crow Wing Co., Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• Lucien Devouge, Paris († 1978)
• Janae Elaine Willink, USA
• René Sonke, Eindhoven († 2005)
• Sjoerd Zwiep van Vuren, alkmaar († 2002)
• Francisca Peters, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1978)

• Adrianus (Ori) van Gogh, Bernheze, Nederland
• Alexander Van der Linden (81), Herentals (St-Elisabethziekenhuis)
• Alexander Ross Piper (68), Barnesville, Ga, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Schuiling (90), Midlaren, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernard Jacob Emanuels (80), Paramaribo, Suriname, Zuid Amerika
• Adriana Johanna Catharina van Loon (58), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Johannes Franciscus PATERNOTTE (53), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje van Oeveren (84)
• Abraham Joosse (66), Oost-en West-Souburg
• Bernardina Tiellemans (82), Oss

• 1975 » Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1976 » Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
• 1978 » Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1978 » Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model
• 1979 » Maggie Q, American actress
• 1979 » Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
• 1980 » Lucy Gordon, British actress and model († 2009)
• 1980 » Sharice Davids, American politician
• 1981 » Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer († 2015)
• 1981 » Daniel Bryan, American wrestler

• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)

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.
• January 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
• July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
• August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.

The temperature on May 22, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.