About the day » Wednesday November 2, 1977Calender converter

• Mariska van Dijk
• Jerry Stomp, Hoorn The Netherlands († 1977)
• Jacob Schinkel († 1977)

• Bernardus Hermanus te Marvelde (73), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ada Kyser (84), Parma cuyahoga county ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Catherine Agnes Klingshirn (80), Avon Lake, Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Kasius (84), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Alida AMMERAAL (78), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Arthur Edward aka Archie Schnaars WW2 WX20121 16th Batn. BAP (62), Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia
• Albertha Johanna Snippe (40), Zwolle
• Abraham Jacobus Stoppels (93), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Dollie Bell Moore (83), Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Hage (81), Zierikzee

• 1974 » Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
• 1975 » Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 » Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver
• 1976 » Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
• 1976 » Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper
• 1977 » Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
• 1977 » Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
• 1977 » Rodney Buford, American basketball player
• 1978 » Carmen Cali, American baseball player
• 1979 » Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

• 1963 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1966 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1975 » Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)

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. Elisabeth
15. Jessica
16. Marieke

• 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.
• April 21 » Annie opens on Broadway.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• June 26 » Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
• July 5 » Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
• July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.

The temperature on November 2, 1977 was between 7.4 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 24.4 mm of rain during 13.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.