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• Sebastiaan Floris Münninghoff, Den Haag († 1977)
• Brand, Oudehaske
• Sabinne Geijsendorpher

• Aris van der Vlies (81), Petten
• Alice Lenora Titheridge (77), Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, England
• Edith Lucille Cunningham Phillips [Bu] (78), Hot Spring, Arkansas
• Cornelis Adrianus LEEUWENBURGH (84), Rotterdam
• Antonius Hubertus Verheijen (46), Overloon, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirkje van Soelen (75)
• Eize Zoer (51)
• Berend Snoeijink (16), Radewijk
• Anna Maria Johanna Nijssen, IJmuiden, Nederland
• Annie J Cain (91), Central Community Hospital, Elkader, Iowa

• 1975 » Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1976 » Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
• 1976 » Samuel Page, American actor
• 1976 » Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1977 » Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 » Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
• 1978 » Bubba Watson, American golfer
• 1978 » Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist († 2011)
• 1979 » Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress

• 1972 » Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1979 » Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)

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. Steven

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. Marieke
15. Elisabeth
16. Jessica

• 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.
• January 18 » SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• May 9 » Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• 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.
• December 6 » South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
• December 25 » Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.

The temperature on November 5, 1977 was between 6.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.