About the day » Sunday February 25, 1979Calender converter

• Katie Lynn Jacobsma, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota († 1999)
• Joseph Benjamin Jungheim, Marburg an der Lahn, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hessen, Germany († 1979)
• Gert Jan Grootwassink
• Hope Linette Beenken, Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa († 1979)
• Amy Marie Bouwma
• Tieme Egbert (Tim) Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Angelique H W M Disbeschl († 1997)

• Arnoldus (Arnold) Martinus Arts (72), Schaijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dingeman Marinus Bal (79), Bruinisse (Schouwen-Duiveland), Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Anna Catharina strating (64), Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adolf Lammers (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria de Waal (73), ,, Eindhoven, Nederland
• Arthur McKinley Smith (82), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Antonetta Adriana Philippart (81)
• Agatha (Aagje) Gielis (75), Den Helder
• Antje JAGER (66), Annen (Anloo) Drenthe Netherlands
• Cornelia van Laarhoven (87), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1962 » Birgit Fischer, German kayaker; winner of eight Olympic gold medals
• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open
• 1988 » Tom Marshall, British photo colouriser and artist
• 1992 » Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player

• 1963 » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
• 1964 » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
• 1970 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1980 » Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Michael
11. Richard
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Bart
16. Gerrit

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Jennifer
15. Patricia
16. Nathalie

• 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 14.0 million citizens.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
• June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
• September 16 » Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
• October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on February 25, 1979 was between -3.9 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.