About the day » Saturday January 13, 1979Calender converter

• Jeroen Gerardus Maria Ruitenberg, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Jeroen Westerveen († 2012)
• Kenneth David Perkins, Rockford Illinois († 1996)
• Adrianus Cornelis LABRIE, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Gemeente Zuidplas, South Holland, Netherlands († 2002)
• Theodora Maria Janssen, Groesbeek

• Antonius Gelauf (61), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Catharina Petronella Anna de Beer (71), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Oosterwal (78), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catherina Petronella Anna de Beer (71), Tilburg
• Anna Margaretha Theuws (75), Bergeijk, Bergeijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catherina Petronella Anna Beer de (71), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord Brabant
• Casparus Cornelis van Saase (65), Haarlem,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Hartsuiker (73), Apeldoorn
• Bessie Lee Dodds (71), Mississippi, United States
• Anne Arendsz Castelein (85), Veenwouden, dantumadeel.fr.nld

• 1977 » Elliot Mason, English trombonist and keyboard player
• 1977 » Mi-Hyun Kim, South Korean golfer
• 1977 » Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer
• 1978 » Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
• 1979 » Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter
• 1980 » Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Krzysztof Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor
• 1980 » Mirko Soltau, German footballer
• 1980 » Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
• 1980 » Wolfgang Loitzl, Austrian ski jumper

• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 » Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
• 1978 » Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1979 » Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1983 » René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1904)

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. Paul
14. Erik
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 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
• December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

The temperature on January 13, 1979 was between -1.3 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.