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• Filiep Crabbe, Roeselare († 1998)
• johanna gerarda (jacqueline) hesen, helden († 1984)
• Johanna Gerarda (Jacqueline) Hesen, Helden,, Limburg, Nederland († 1984)
• Jacqueline Hesen, Helden († 1984)

• Christinus Johannes Smaling (71), Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alia Baha Touqan (28), Amman, Jordanie
• Dorothea Maria Aaldering (88), Huissen
• Aldert KLUFT (88), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Stomp (48)
• Alain, Marcel Cluckers (51), Leuven, België
• Charles .Ferdinand griffith (21)
• Berendina Catharina Morssink (80), Haaksbergen, OV, Nederland
• Albert Gerben Hedman Vrijburg (83), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• ALEIDA VAN HET HOF (67)

• 1974 » Amber Valletta, American model
• 1974 » Brad Maynard, American football player
• 1974 » Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1975 » Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster († 2008)
• 1975 » Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach
• 1975 » Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1976 » Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
• 1979 » Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater

• 1966 » Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)

• 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 4 » A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
• April 7 » German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• June 27 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
• July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• September 13 » General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.

The temperature on February 9, 1977 was between -0.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.