About the day » Friday August 10, 1979Calender converter

• Martinus Wilhelmus Galesloot, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Allen James Denouden, Eugene, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Marc Hendrik (Marc) Baas, Emmen
• margaretha leontine (linda) verber, helden-beringe
• Brenda Muije, Monster
• Henrike Heetebrij

• Anna Maria Janssen (87), Eindhoven
• Cornelia Johanna Maria Spijkers (58), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Henneman (69), Heemskerk
• Adolph Maximiliaan Pino (88), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Steffina Giezen (74), Drenth,Netherlands
• Adriana Noordam (86), Zoetermeer ZH/NLD
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Verhoeven (79), Eindhoven
• Cornelia van den Brink (87), Amsterdam
• Ans (Anna Elisabeth) Kleipool (63), Waalre
• Albertus Francois ("Frans") Stroink (83), Hulshorst

• 1978 » Chris Read, English cricketer
• 1978 » Danny Allsopp, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
• 1979 » Brandon Lyon, American baseball player
• 1979 » Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 » JoAnna Garcia, American actress
• 1979 » Matjaž Perc, Slovene physicist
• 1979 » Rémy Martin, French rugby player
• 1979 » Ted Geoghegan, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1979 » Yannick Schroeder, French race car driver

• 1969 » János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1980 » Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 1982 » Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
• 1985 » Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1968)

• 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.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
• October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
• October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
• October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on August 10, 1979 was between 9.9 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.