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• Flora den Hartog († 1990)
• Nanneke van Verseveld († 2014)
• Nicolette Catharina Alida Laan, Alkmaar († 2003)

• Anna Adriana van Loon (72), Brunsum
• Albert A. RAKESTRAW (76), Cullman County Alabama U.S.A
• Chester E Williams (68), Dothan, Houston, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Franciscus van Dorst (61), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina Pronk (89)
• Albert Wassink (87)
• Albert De Maertelaere (61), Oudenaarde, 9700, Oost Vlaanderen
• Bernardus Franciscus MECKING (86), Breedenbroek
• Albert Wassink (87), Diepenveen, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Alida Turk (51), Zoeterwoude

• 1975 » Martijn Reuser, Dutch footballer
• 1976 » Mat Rogers, Australian rugby player
• 1976 » Phil Ivey, American poker player
• 1977 » Lari Ketner, American basketball player († 2014)
• 1977 » Robert Traylor, American basketball player († 2011)
• 1978 » K'naan, Somali-Canadian hip-hop artist
• 1978 » Tim Harding, Australian singer and actor
• 1979 » Jason Isbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 » Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter († 2006)

• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)

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.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• July 26 » The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
• August 15 » The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
• December 6 » South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

The temperature on February 1, 1977 was between -4.7 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.