About the day » Sunday August 6, 1978Calender converter

• Hanneke J. C. van der Horst
• Craig Malcolm EARL († 1978)

• Charles CONACHER (73), 20 Forster Street, Invermay, Tasmania, Australia
• Cornelis Hoorweg (73), Schiedam
• Cornelius JAGER (85), Homewood, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Addena Christians (59)
• Cornelis van Riel (54), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan Woudenberg (75), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Klom, Bolsward
• Conrad Deloris Monger (85)
• Cornelis Donker (56), S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Christine Addena Christians (59), fortasse, somewhere in IA

• 1976 » Melissa George, Australian-American actress
• 1976 » Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and producer
• 1977 » Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 » Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer
• 1977 » Rebecca Maddern, Australian journalist and television host
• 1978 » Marvel Smith, American football player
• 1979 » Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
• 1979 » Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
• 1979 » Travis Reed, American basketball player

• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 » Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)

• 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.
• April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• 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 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
• August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
• August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
• September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

The temperature on August 6, 1978 was between 11.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.