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

• Adrianus van Baal (84), Breda, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Betje Groen (70)
• Adriana Catharina Calkoen (90)
• Adriana Maria Oprins (81), Wuustwezel (België)
• Arno Edgar Germano Güttler (80), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Antonie Hendrik Coops (85), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beatryce Nisberg (57), Chicago, Cook County, Ill, Verenigde Staten
• Aaldert Jonkers (65), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Gillis Brouwer (62), Aagtekerke, Walcheren, NL
• Adriana Catharina Paulina Calkoen (90), Wageningen,Gemeente Wageningen,Gelderland,Netherlands

• 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)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
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 11 » London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
• May 25 » Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
• July 21 » The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• August 17 » The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
• August 18 » Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

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.