About the day » Saturday August 26, 1978Calender converter

• Aurélie GILSON, Saint-Ouen, 17377, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France
• Silke Thomauske, Gronau († 2014)

• Egbert Otter (85), Heerenveen
• Elisabeth Hermina Onstein (80), Rotterdam
• Catharina Jacoba Kruijt (81)
• Egbertus Hendrikus Froklage * (61), Steenwijkerwold
• Albert Haarlemmer (71), Veendam,, Groningen, Nederland
• Eva Nathans (82), Haifa
• Arthur Gordon Sherwood (93), Clayton, Melb Victoria
• Annie Catherine Chisholm (73)
• Elisobeth Hermina Johanna Onstein (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Cornelis Hubertus Kok (69), Den Haag

• 1976 » Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1976 » Mike Colter, American actor
• 1977 » Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer
• 1977 » Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1977 » Simone Motta, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer
• 1979 » Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1979 » Jamal Lewis, American football player
• 1979 » Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer
• 1980 » Macaulay Culkin, American actor

• 1975 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 » H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1978 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)

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.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
• 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 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
• September 5 » Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

The temperature on August 26, 1978 was between 9.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.