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• Phyllis Dawn (Torchie) PEARCE († 2011)
• Yasmijn Theuns Duursma († 1999)
• Godelieve Maria van der Horst, Vilvoorde, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Ronny Hekman († 1999)
• Albartus Johannes (Bart) Hazeleger, Amersfoort († 1979)

• Adriana Arnolda Maria de Cock (84), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Clasina Maria Elisabeth Koster (87), Brunssum
• Catharina Bakker (60), amsterdam, Nederland
• Bernard Josef Beerling (82)
• Alfons Vanhese
• Cornelia Adriana Juliana Catharina van Hest (63), Tilburg
• Antje Gosses Kingma (81), Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Muller (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Frederick Fiedler (65), South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Antje de Beer (72), Rotterdam

• 1974 » Braden Looper, American baseball player
• 1974 » Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1976 » Keiron Cunningham, British rugby league player and coach
• 1976 » Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
• 1976 » Simone Loria, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 » Jawed Karim, American computer scientist
• 1979 » Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
• 1979 » Natina Reed, American rapper and actress († 2012)
• 1979 » Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer

• 1969 » Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 » Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
• 1978 » Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1986 » John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
• 1987 » André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)

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 9 » The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
• May 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• August 17 » The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
• September 5 » Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
• September 25 » About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

The temperature on October 28, 1977 was between 5.9 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.