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• Jessica Lea Duininck
• Helen Dame
• Ronny van de WEG, Dordrecht († 2007)
• Valérie Picha, Liège, Belgique († 2019)
• Ilse Debuf († 2024)

• Blanche A. Newman Pruitt [Ks] (86), Henderson County, Kentucky
• Cornelis van Toledo (88), Hengelo
• Annie Longfellow Thorp (82), Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
• Cornelius Fokkes Huizinga (78), Grand Rapids-Michigan (USA)
• Clasina Steenbergen (86), Essex, Groot Brittanië
• Christina van Mourik (79), Amsterdam
• Blayne H Labrum (39), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
• Aaltje Haasnoot (87), Noordwijk aan Zee
• Anna Groote (71)
• Boelwina Nobbe (99), Alteveer, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1974 » Sébastien Loeb, French race car driver
• 1976 » Chad Urmston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematician
• 1977 » Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1977 » Shane Williams, Welsh rugby union player
• 1977 » Tim Thomas, American basketball player
• 1978 » Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 » Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Pedro Mendes, Portuguese international footballer, midfielder
• 1979 » Steve Evans, Welsh footballer

• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)

• 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 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
• March 2 » Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
• May 1 » Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• May 25 » Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
• October 14 » Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.
• November 19 » TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.

The temperature on February 26, 1977 was between -2.0 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.