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

• Cornelia Antonia van Wijgerden (86), Den-Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrienne DE KEULENAER (70), Kallo
• Conjour (57), Sittard (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Adriaan Jacobus Woltering (84), Voorburg
• Cecil Clyde Wallace (58)
• Boudewijn de Graaf (16)
• Catharina Baremans (81), Zevenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje BONS (60)
• Antonius Sekeris (75), Pernis
• Anna Maria Martha Korver (85), Den Helder

• 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)

• 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 18 » SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• March 2 » Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
• March 11 » The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
• April 28 » The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• May 1 » Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• September 27 » Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.

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.