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• * Netty Caroline Davies (57), Apeldoorn
• Desiderius Baetens (79), Aalst
• Aleida Maria Berends (88), De Vecht,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna Hellendoorn (80), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland
• Douglas Vernon SALTMARSH (83), Tasmania, Australia
• Dani√´l van der Schaar (70), Velsen,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Edward Joseph Robillard (78), Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America
• Casemirus Emilius Goossens (77), Hasselt, België
• Daniella Cornelia Kok (75), Alphen (N.Br)
• Benjamin Cecil Booth (90), Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• 1974 » Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager
• 1975 » Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 » Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 » Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1977 » Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1977 » Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
• 1978 » Lauren Ambrose, American actress and producer
• 1980 » Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
• 1980 » Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
• 1981 » Tony Hibbert, English footballer

• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
• 1987 » Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)

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 3 » Apple Computer is incorporated.
• May 1 » Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• May 28 » In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
• September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• 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 February 20, 1977 was between 4.0 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.