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• Bart Heesakkers, De Mortel (Gemert) († 2018)
• niels a.j. (niels) peeters, helden-beringe
• Gerardus Jacobus Wilhelmus Senne, Alphen aan de Rijn († 1980)
• Stefan Kummeling, Babberich († 1977)
• Marleen Hobers, Rotterdam

• Antonius Sekeris (75), Pernis
• Catharina Baremans (81), Zevenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• bastaan GROENEWEG (53), numansdorp
• Cornelis NEVE (78)
• Calvin Beck CLARK (60), Provo, Utah, Utah
• Betje KERS (85)
• Adriana Maria Hobbelen (96), Raalte
• Callie Milam (71), Wilkes, North Carolina
• Charles Thomas HALL (75)
• Andreas Joannes Hobbelen (79), Tilburg

• 1974 » Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player
• 1975 » Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
• 1976 » Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
• 1976 » Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 » Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer
• 1979 » Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
• 1979 » Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster
• 1979 » Wiley, English rapper and producer

• 1968 » Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
• 1973 » Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (b. 1884)
• 1980 » William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Francesca Woodman, American photographer (b. 1958)
• 1982 » Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (b. 1945)
• 1984 » Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1920)

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. 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 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.
• July 26 » The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
• August 12 » The first free flight of the Space ShuttleEnterprise.
• August 13 » Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
• 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.

The temperature on January 19, 1977 was between -2.7 °C and -0.5 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.