About the day » Monday August 22, 1977Calender converter

• Martin Geerlings, Swalmen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1988)
• Susanne Berg

• Adrianus Johannes Diemeer (74), Beverwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Johannes Hofland (77), Scheveningen
• Christina Maria Elisabeth van Berkel (83), Amsterdam
• Arie Molenaar (72), Zandvoort
• Frederick William Jahncke (80), Postville, Clayton, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Alma Emma Ellis (68)
• Christina Cox (80), Roermond
• Asseltje Venema (80), -
• adriaan leendert minderhoud (68), Netherlands
• Celina Mathalia Maria Lannoije (63), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1975 » Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 » Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1976 » Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
• 1976 » Laurent Hernu, French decathlete
• 1976 » Marius Bezykornovas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 » Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 1977 » Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1977 » Keren Cytter, Israeli visual artist and writer
• 1978 » Ioannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
• 1978 » James Corden, English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter

• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 » Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 » James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 » James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (b. 1910)

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

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

• 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.
• May 14 » A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
• May 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• July 19 » The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41a.m. Eastern time (ET).
• July 20 » The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
• October 18 » German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.

The temperature on August 22, 1977 was between 12.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 28.4 mm of rain during 15.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.