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• Bastiaan Koenis, Oudkarspel,1724,Langedijk,Noord-Holland,Nederland

• Alice Margaret Hamilton (74), Indianola, Ok
• Carmen R N.N. (Mrs. Hider) (72), San Diego Co., CA
• Aagje IJFF (72), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (15d) Jacobus Maria Joseph van Besouw (82), Hilversum
• Catharina Johanna Lugters (76), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Anthonij Leendert van Mourik (51), Rotterdam
• Antonia Ludovica Maria van Dongen (86)
• Adeline Depersia (57)
• Adriaan Flohil (89), Haamstede
• Anna Maria Heygele (79), Valkenburg,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1971 » Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1972 » Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
• 1974 » Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician
• 1976 » Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 » Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
• 1977 » Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
• 1979 » Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist.
• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 » Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player

• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer(b. 1908)
• 1981 » Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (b. 1917))
• 1988 » Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (b.1919)

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.
• March 4 » The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
• July 22 » Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• July 26 » The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
• August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• August 20 » Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• December 1 » Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.

The temperature on January 7, 1977 was between 0.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.