About the day » Wednesday February 14, 1979Calender converter

• Richard M Todd ****, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Clayton Gregory Bear, Indiana († 2010)

• Cornelis Mol (78), St. Philipsland
• Apolonia Maria Botting (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• André Richard (29)
• Edward John Bosman (26), Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington
• Eliza Harriet LAPLAIN (82), Waltham Forest, London, England
• Arie den Ouden (80), Gouda
• A.A.J(Aloysius) Steggink (44), Hengelo(O)
• Alida Berdina ten Bos (54), Borculo,, Gelderland, Nederland
• August Filip Albert Davidts (59), Denderleeuw (B), België
• Adrianus Bernardus Maria van 'T Hullenaar (58), Hamilton,Ont

• 1977 » Anna Erschler, Russian mathematician
• 1977 » Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
• 1977 » Darren Purse, English footballer
• 1977 » Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer († 2007)
• 1977 » Jim Jefferies, Australian comedian and actor
• 1977 » Robert J. Jackson Jr., American law professor
• 1978 » Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1978 » Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
• 1980 » Josh Senter, American screenwriter and producer
• 1980 » Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress and producer

• 1969 » Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
• 1975 » P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Adolph Dubs, American lieutenant and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Edmund Rubbra, English composer and conductor (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Frederick Loewe, German-American composer (b. 1901)

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 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
• September 29 » The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
• October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
• November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

The temperature on February 14, 1979 was between -6.3 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.