About the day » Thursday August 16, 1979Calender converter

• Andrea Metje Juliana Brink, Beilen
• Isabelle Marie Francis Ghislaine De Smet, Uccle, Belgique († 2012)
• Timothy Paul Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio († 1996)

• Bertha Eyssen (80), Ettelbruck, Luxemburg
• Effie J. Balke (83)
• Bertha de Reuver (82), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Brenda Smidt (62), Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota
• Basílio Tomazzi (71)
• Anna Maria Hamers (83), Gilze en Rijen
• Cornelis Adrianus Maria Kroon (72), Leiden, Nederland
• Aart-Jan de Leeuw van Weenen (82)
• Alice Maria Magdalena Roeges (70), Sijsele-Damme
• David Frederick Radsliff (90), Selah, Yakima Co., WA

• 1977 » Pavel Královec, Czech football referee
• 1979 » Eduardo Maiorino, Brazilian mixed martial artist and kick-boxer († 2012)
• 1979 » Ian Moran, Australian cricketer
• 1979 » Paul Gallacher, Scottish footballer
• 1980 » Bob Hardy, English bass player
• 1980 » Emerson Ramos Borges, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch cyclist
• 1980 » Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1981 » Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
• 1982 » Joleon Lescott, English footballer

• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
• 1978 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)
• 1979 » John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Duško Radović, Serbian children's writer, poet, journalist, aphorist and TV editor (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (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.
• January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
• September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
• November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

The temperature on August 16, 1979 was between 12.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.