About the day » Monday October 3, 1977Calender converter

• Festus K Bardwell Jr († 2000)
• Robert Adam Yancy († 2017)
• Jerry John Henri Ebing, Amersfoort
• Hulst Hendrikus († 2013)

• Beatryce Nisberg (57), Chicago, Cook County, Ill, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardina Maria Schepers (86), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Gommel (100), Schiedam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella Willemina Slager (75), Dalem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette Adriana Maria Sterck (86), The Hague, The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Hendrika Reinders (66)
• Arnoldus Houben (35)
• 'Jane' Jeanne BECKER (79), Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Betje Groen (70)
• Albertus josephus van Dijk (77), Rotterdam

• 1975 » India Arie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1976 » Herman Li, Hong Kong-English guitarist and producer
• 1976 » Seann William Scott, American actor and producer
• 1977 » Daniel Hollie, American wrestler
• 1977 » Eric Munson, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Luca Tognozzi, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
• 1978 » Gerald Asamoah, Ghanaian-German footballer
• 1978 » Jake Shears, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Neil Clement, English footballer

• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (b. 1887)
• 1986 » Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1987 » Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (b. 1947)

• 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.
• June 7 » Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
• July 19 » The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41a.m. Eastern time (ET).
• July 20 » The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
• August 12 » The first free flight of the Space ShuttleEnterprise.
• November 8 » Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

The temperature on October 3, 1977 was between 4.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.