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• Ann Baetens, Herentals (B), België († 1991)
• Sandra Marcazzan, Leuven, 3000 België († 1977)
• Brecht Arijs, Ronse, België († 1983)
• Machelina (Marceline) Goedegebuure, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)

• Albertje Dorenbos (86)
• Cornelis Franciscus de Zoete (86), Wateringen(ZH)
• Arendina Johanna Hendrika Immink (69), diepenheim (overijssel)
• Berend Gruppen (82), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Koenraads (93), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• C. Marsh (private) (68), St. Ann Parish, Jamaica
• Elisabeth (Elizabeth) Comello (91), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Christine Bauer (84), Osnabrück (Nedersaksen), Duitsland
• Adriana Peters (83)
• Anna Lugt (95), Heelsum

• 1975 » Mike Rucker, American football player
• 1976 » Ali Larter, American actress
• 1977 » Jason Aldean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 » Lance Hoyt, American football player and wrestler
• 1978 » Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
• 1978 » Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
• 1978 » Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 » Mariano Zabaleta, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 » Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
• 1979 » Sébastien Bourdais, French race car driver

• 1963 » Rajendra Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Charles Bassett, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1931)
• 1966 » Elliot See, American commander, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 1967 » Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1983 » Winifred Atwell, Trinidadian pianist (b. 1910 or 1914)
• 1987 » Stephen Tennant, English author (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914)

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.
• February 4 » A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
• July 5 » Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
• August 4 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• September 18 » Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• September 20 » Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
• September 30 » Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

The temperature on February 28, 1977 was between -4.6 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.