About the day » Saturday June 16, 1979Calender converter

• Anneke Langerak
• Nikki Rosez

• Anne Annesz Cnossen (89), Stroobos, achtkarspelen.fr.nld
• Blanche Marcella Reardon (63), Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Zwanida Johanna Mathilde Cordes (92), San Francisco,San Francisco County,Calif,United States
• Antonia Maria van de Ven (81), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernadette Josephine Pierette VAN WAESBERGHE (6)
• Albert Herman Hijmans-van den Bergh (50), Bergen-op-Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba PUNT (90)
• Anna Louise Beerenborg (85), Rotterdam, Government of Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands
• Arnoldus Snoeren
• "Jacques" Joseph Marie d'Aboville (90), Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

• 1977 » Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1977 » Duncan Hames, English accountant and politician
• 1978 » Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
• 1978 » Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
• 1980 » Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
• 1980 » Henry Perenara, New Zealand rugby league player and referee
• 1980 » Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
• 1980 » Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
• 1980 » Phil Christophers, German-English rugby player

• 1971 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
• 1979 » Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1896)
• 1982 » James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1984 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Lew Andreas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (b. 1902)

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 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
• 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.
• November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
• November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.

The temperature on June 16, 1979 was between 6.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.