About the day » Thursday September 8, 1977Calender converter

• Lode Eeckhout, Roeselare († 1998)
• Troy Michael Ludwig († 2008)

• Catharina Johanna van Gurp (84), Breda
• Arie Pieter Boon (74), 's-Gravenzande
• Alexander, Dominicus, Johannes Flipse (54), Arnhem
• Cornelis Marinus Klapwijk (83), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dimphna Maria Roovers (88)
• Egbert de Jonge (74), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Cornelis Frijters (87), Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bessel van Looijengoed (68)
• Adriana Jacoba Voogt (82)
• Amos Bruhn (74), Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States

• 1975 » Lee Eul-yong, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1976 » Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
• 1976 » Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
• 1976 » Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
• 1977 » Jay McKee, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1978 » Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and poet
• 1978 » Emanuele Ferraro, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1978 » Gil Meche, American baseball player
• 1978 » Rebel, American wrestler

• 1969 » Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (b. 1868)
• 1969 » Bud Collyer, American game show host (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)

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

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

• 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.
• January 17 » Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
• April 5 » The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
• May 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• June 13 » Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• August 18 » Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• 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 September 8, 1977 was between 9.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.