About the day » Saturday January 8, 1977Calender converter

• Petrus Stephanus (Peter) Veldman, Zwolle
• Arie Pieter Hoogenboezem, Louis Trichardt, South Africa
• Cherie Yvette Boutmy, South Lake Tahoe(USA)

• Petrus Daniel van Olst (75)
• Arend Hendrik Knaake (68), Steenderen
• Aaltje Achter (81), Laren, N-H, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Achter (81), Laren,,Noord-Holland,PAYS-BAS
• Beulah M Lozier **** (70), Kenton, Kentucky, United States
• Antoinette Van den Rul (39), Neerpelt
• Cornelia Catharina Joanna Donders (73), Tilburg
• Aloijsius Augustinus Roels (85), Den Helder
• Berend Overdijk (82)
• Carrie Beatrice "Beallie" McBride (65), Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten

• 1975 » Harris Jayaraj, Indian composer and producer
• 1976 » Carl Pavano, American baseball player
• 1976 » Kenneth Andam, Ghanaian sprinter and businessman
• 1977 » Amber Benson, American actress, writer, director, and producer
• 1977 » Francesco Coco, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
• 1979 » Sarah Polley, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1979 » Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
• 1980 » Adam Goodes, Australian footballer

• 1972 » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (b. 1911)
• 1975 » Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898)
• 1980 » John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 » Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• September 12 » South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.

The temperature on January 8, 1977 was between 0.7 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.