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• levenloos geboren zoontje, Hardenberg († 1977)
• Martje van der Laan, Surhuisterveen
• Angelique Maria Catharina Valkering, Ursem († 1977)

• Antonia MAAS (84), Vlaardingen (Z-H)
• Camilla Van Lancker (91), Gent
• Catharina Maria Lutjens (86), Breda
• Alice Sally Mary Green (91), 's Gravenhage
• Anton Willem van Dijk (81), Amsterdam
• Alida Johanna Maria Scholten (67), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha van den Berg (72), Zwolle
• Cornelia Francisca van Zutphen (79), Velsen
• Cornelia Helena de Groen (68)
• Cornelia Francisca van Zutphen (79), Velsen

• 1976 » James Dearth, American football player
• 1976 » Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Anna Linkova, Russian tennis player
• 1977 » Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1977 » Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1978 » Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1979 » Aidan Burley, New Zealand-English politician
• 1979 » Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
• 1979 » Chor Boogie, American artist

• 1971 » Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
• 1973 » Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1873)
• 1977 » Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
• 1980 » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and academic (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
10. David
11. Hendrik
12. Pieter
13. Dennis
14. Marcel
15. Cornelis
16. Steven

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Esther
4. Johanna
5. Sandra
6. Wendy
7. Cindy
8. Linda
9. Yvonne
10. Patricia
11. Jennifer
12. Anna
13. Bianca
14. Marieke
15. Elisabeth
16. Jessica

• 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 13.8 million citizens.
• January 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
• March 2 » Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
• March 9 » The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
• July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• July 21 » The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• October 7 » The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

The temperature on January 22, 1977 was between 3.7 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.