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• Bernardus Leonardus Huijgens (70), Amsterdam
• Anne Theodora Ruijg (22)
• Arie Schalk (91)
• Arnolus Martinus Smeets (79), Stramproy
• Alberdina Wilhelmina Vetkamp (77)
• Anna Maria Westermann (67), Amstelveen
• Anna Otillia Prochaska (90), Glendale, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin
• Antje KROES (88), Amsterdam, NL-NH
• Bouwe Fokkes Wiersma (78), Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis (Cor) Adrianus van Nierop (81), Leidschendam, Nederland

• 1975 » Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
• 1975 » Glen Little, English footballer and manager
• 1976 » Christian Allen, American video game designer
• 1976 » Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
• 1977 » David Trezeguet, French footballer
• 1977 » Masato Kawabata, Japanese race car driver
• 1977 » Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1978 » Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
• 1979 » Blue Adams, American football player and coach

• 1966 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
• 1968 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1976 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1978 » W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)

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.
• 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.
• March 24 » Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
• June 27 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
• July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• September 4 » The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
• 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 October 15, 1977 was between 4.2 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.