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• Marcella Quirina Dorotheé van Leeuwen, Utrecht, Utrecht, nederland († 2009)
• Marcella Quirina Dorothée van Leeuwen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)

• Aaltje Verhoef (78), Amstelveen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Pearl Borders (69), Sumner, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Christel OBERHOFF (71), Willingen (D)
• Atze Hommes Dijkstra (64), Heerenveen
• Antonia Louisa Hendrika Pérolles (79), Bladel,Gemeente Bladel en Netersel,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Aaltje Verhoef (78), Amstelveen
• Cornelis Frederik Hansen (59), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Bertha FELDHAUSER (86), Maastricht (Limburg, The Netherlands)
• Arend Talen (77)
• Charles John Lyttelton (67), Marylebone, London, England

• 1974 » Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
• 1975 » Isolde Kostner, Italian skier
• 1975 » Ramin Bahrani, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Chester Bennington, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor († 2017)
• 1978 » Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 » Kevin Betsy, English born Seychelles international footballer, midfielder and manager
• 1979 » Freema Agyeman, English actress
• 1979 » Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 » Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
• 1980 » Jamal Crawford, American basketball player

• 1968 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)

• 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 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• July 20 » The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
• August 10 » In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
• September 27 » Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
• November 20 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
• December 6 » South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

The temperature on March 20, 1977 was between 1.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.