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July 15, 1979Born on Monday July 16, 1979
- William Samuel Lancaster, Scunthorpe, United Kingdom († 1979)
- Daniël van Tellingen († 2006)
- Nathan Vanderlaan, Wallaceburg, ON, Canada
- Symone Yvonne Johnson, Jamaica, West Indies († 2024)
- Neela Grace Nadkarni, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States († 1993)
Died on Monday July 16, 1979
- Adrianus Foolen (59), Veghel, Meierijstad,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Aaltje Zwang (72), Amsterdam
- Arsène Petrus Bossuyt (91), Brussel (BHG) België
- Amando Soares Fragoso, Campo Largo, Paraná, Brasil
- Arij Bok (74), Den Helder
- Adriana VERPLANKE (99), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
- Albertha Lubina van Muijlwijk (59), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
- * Gerardus van Loon (81), Drunen
- Anna Pietronella Swaneveld (93), Scheveningen
- Antonius Wilhelmus Berends (79)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from July 16, 1979 at Delpher
Born on July 16
- 1977 » Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient († 2006)
- 1979 » Chris Mihm, American basketball player
- 1979 » Kim Rhode, American sport shooter
- 1979 » Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer
- 1979 » Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- 1979 » Nathan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 » Adam Scott, Australian golfer
- 1981 » Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer
- 1981 » Robert Kranjec, Slovenian ski jumper
- 1981 » Zach Randolph, American basketball player
Died on July 16
- 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
- 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
- 1982 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
- 1985 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- 1985 » Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
- 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
- 1990 » Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
- 1990 » Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
- 1991 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906)
- 1991 » Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (b. 1915)
Names that were popular for boys in 1979
Names that were popular for girls in 1979
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1979
- 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.
- March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
- July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
- November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- December 23 » Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Weather July 16, 1979
The temperature on July 16, 1979 was between 9.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.