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• Ilse Debackere
• Inge Caljouw († 2020)

• Anna Kazina Asveld (69), Usselo, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Cyril Robert Jarvis (73), Mooroopna, Greater Shepparton City, Victoria, Australia
• Albertus Zwart (68), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Tobi (76), Haarlem
• Adrianus Marinus Hooijmans (78), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Dirk CAPEL (80), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis Petrus Maria van Gorp (73), Tilburg
• Cora Estelle Lewis (76), Pensacola, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Maria Nieuwenhuis (77)
• Alida Susanna Maria Frauenfelder (94), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1975 » Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
• 1975 » Toby Hall, American baseball player
• 1976 » Henrik Gustavsson, Swedish footballer
• 1976 » Jeremy Miller, American actor and singer
• 1976 » Josh Ritter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian gymnast
• 1976 » Mélanie Turgeon, Canadian skier
• 1978 » Henrik Klingenberg, Finnish singer and keyboard player
• 1978 » Joey Harrington, American football player and sportscaster
• 1979 » Khalil Greene, American baseball player

• 1970 » Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Minnie Evans, Potawatomi leader (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Nasif Estéfano, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1932)
• 1975 » Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Ferit Tüzün, Turkish composer (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 » Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 1983 » Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
• 1984 » François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)

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 3 » Apple Computer is incorporated.
• April 28 » The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• August 4 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• August 17 » The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
• August 18 » Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• September 27 » Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.

The temperature on October 21, 1977 was between 10.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.