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• Gil'ad Cohen, Dawrat/Israel († 1986)
• Leonie Weber, Rotterdam
• de Weger († 1992)
• Wilfred Boiten († 1999)
• Marco Hugo Hoek, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Marco Hugo Hoek, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• Anne de Vries (79)
• Camille Joseph Rotty (74), Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium
• Abraham Remijnse (69), Baarn,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bauke Couperus (161), Hieslum
• Apollonia Pannebakker (67), 's-Gravenhage
• Aafke Fokkes Posthuma (63), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aaltje Pel (84)
• Bertus KNOOP (74), Almelo
• Hermanus Bernardus van Trigt (66), Amsterdam
• Catrinus Beekelaar (51), Vlaardingen

• 1974 » Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
• 1974 » Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
• 1975 » Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
• 1976 » Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1976 » Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor
• 1977 » Brandon Rogers, American singer and actor
• 1977 » Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1978 » Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host
• 1979 » Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater

• 1968 » Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)

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.
• January 19 » President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
• February 18 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
• March 24 » Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
• August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• October 6 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
• November 26 » An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.

The temperature on December 11, 1977 was between 5.8 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.