About the day » Saturday June 23, 1979Calender converter

• Jeremiah Robert Dewyer († 1999)
• Jeremiah Robert Dewyer († 1999)
• Daniel Suijkerlander
• Alexander Herbert WELCHER, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 2014)

• Dick van Kan (48), Grand River Lake (Geauga), Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Earnest Leo Young (53), Brighton, Polk County, Missouri, VS
• Ariaantje Bokhorst (83), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Meijer (87)
• Bouchien Schoenmaker (85), Gieten
• Adrianus IV van der Steld (88), Rotterdam, 3011, Nederland
• Anna Machiels (93), Hasselt, België
• Agatha (Aagje) Bouwmeester (81), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Lee (87), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• David Bowie Moore (0)

• 1977 » Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager
• 1977 » Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
• 1978 » Frederic Leclercq, French heavy metal musician
• 1978 » Matt Light, American football player and sportscaster
• 1978 » Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1979 » LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
• 1980 » Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator
• 1980 » Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
• 1980 » Melissa Rauch, American actress
• 1980 » Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer

• 1969 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
• 1970 » Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Clyfford Still, American painter and academic (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
• 1995 » Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Roger Grimsby, American journalist (b. 1928)

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

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. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• 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.
• February 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
• September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
• October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
• October 17 » The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.

The temperature on June 23, 1979 was between 9.3 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.