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• Dennis de Groot ( Nagel ), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1998)
• Albert Arend Dijkhuis, Winschoten
• COLIN MICHAEL DONKERVOORT († 2006)

• Celestine RENDERS (59), Anderlecht,1070,Bruxelles,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Alvin Ray Martin (64), Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
• Antoon van den Dungen (80)
• Antonius Lestrade (75), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Nicolaas Endhoven (4), Wieringermeer
• Aaltje Visscher (77)
• Gerardus Couprie (71), Rijswijk
• Charles Virtus Harbaugh (73), Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Augustinus Cornelis Sommen (77), Baarle-Nassau
• Adrianus van Kwawegen (93), Rotterdam

• 1976 » Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist
• 1976 » Chris Hoke, American football player
• 1976 » Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player
• 1976 » Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator
• 1976 » James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1977 » Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 » Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1978 » Robert Glasper, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1978 » Tim Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster

• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)

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.
• March 23 » The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
• June 13 » Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• August 12 » The Sri Lanka Riots:, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
• August 15 » The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• November 22 » British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

The temperature on April 6, 1977 was between 0.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.