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• Sacha Ryckeboer, SINT-NIKLAAS († 1990)
• Tom Dimphna Joannes Sauvillers, Geel, Antwerpen, België († 2012)
• Jantien Helder, Harkema (De Harkema), Friesland, Nederland († 2006)
• Robert Christopher Glenn, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina († 1998)

• Antje van der Gragt (85)
• Berend van Eldik (81)
• Aleida Bernardina Maria Holweg (73), Laren
• Andreas Josephus van Gijsel (68), Geldrop
• Arie Klootwijk [4741] (85)
• Adrianus van der Beek (86)
• Albertus Verelst (61), Herenthout, België
• Anton Willem Bloemhard (69), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Alfons Peeters (78), Geel, België
• Anton Willem Bloemhard (69), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1975 » Anouk, Dutch singer
• 1975 » Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1977 » Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
• 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)
• 1978 » Bernt Haas, Austrian-Swiss footballer
• 1978 » Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
• 1978 » Evans Rutto, Kenyan runner
• 1978 » Jocelyn Robichaud, Canadian tennis player and coach
• 1978 » Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress

• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)

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 31 » The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• June 16 » Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• July 21 » The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• August 17 » The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
• November 12 » France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.
• November 22 » British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

The temperature on April 8, 1977 was between -1.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.