About the day » Thursday October 13, 1977Calender converter

• Adrianus Slagter, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Sophia Rozemeijer († 1977)

• Catharina Maria Antonia Hogenboom (82), Maastricht
• Charlie Newton Mehaffey (88), Davenport, Polk, Florida, United States
• Anna Gebben (93), Sleen
• Alfred Harold Bush (75), Gunning, New South Wales, Australia
• Anna Caroline McDonald (91), Keokuk, Iowa, United States
• Antje Baukes Westerterp (91), Wisconsin, United States
• Albert Frederik Alfred Poelakker (0), Almelo, Nederland
• Alida OPDAM (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Be de Weerd (60), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Opdam- (77), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1977 » Antonio Di Natale, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Benjamin Clapp, American drummer
• 1977 » Gareth Batty, English cricketer
• 1977 » Justin Peroff, Canadian drummer and actor
• 1977 » Paul Pierce, American basketball player
• 1978 » Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player
• 1979 » Mamadou Niang, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 » Wes Brown, English footballer
• 1980 » Ashanti, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 » David Haye, English boxer

• 1968 » Bea Benaderet, American actress and voice artist (b. 1906)
• 1973 » Albert Mandler, Austrian-Israeli general (b. 1929)
• 1973 » Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, Turkish ethnographer and author (b. 1886)
• 1974 » Anatoli Kozhemyakin, Soviet footballer (b. 1953)
• 1974 » Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Otto Binder, American author (b. 1911)
• 1979 » Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (b. 1886)
• 1985 » Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

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.
• April 7 » German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• June 13 » Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• June 15 » After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain.
• August 20 » Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• September 13 » General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.
• November 20 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

The temperature on October 13, 1977 was between 5.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.