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• Carolien van Muijden, Lexmond († 1983)
• Cornelia Fijgje van Muyden († 1983)
• Leonieke Klomp († 1993)
• Nathan John TREGANNA († 2002)
• Richard Joseph Gonzalez, Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2006)

• Adrianus Mutsaars (70), Veghel
• Arnoldus Armand Hubertus Leblanc (69), Luik (B)
• Brandt Keegstra (69), Castrolanda, Castro, Paraná, Brazilie
• Anna Maria de Bakker (79), Tilburg
• Charles Harold Fenstermaker (59), Columbus, Franklin Co.Ohio
• Catharina Mechtildis Lemmens (89), Papenhoven Grevenbicht
• Arie Mol (86), Wervershoof
• Alexander Adrianus Cornelis Joseph de Chene (79), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charlotte Falls (88)
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• 1976 » Clarence Seedorf, Dutch-Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1976 » David Gilliland, American race car driver
• 1976 » David Oyelowo, English actor
• 1976 » Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator
• 1976 » Yuka Yoshida, Japanese tennis player
• 1977 » Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
• 1977 » Vitor Belfort, Brazilian-American boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1978 » Anamaria Marinca, Romanian-English actress
• 1978 » Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer († 2009)
• 1978 » Mirka Federer, Slovak-Swiss tennis player

• 1965 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
10. Hendrik
11. David
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 14 » A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
• June 10 » James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• July 13 » Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
• August 18 » Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• October 18 » German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
• December 4 » Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.

The temperature on April 1, 1977 was between 3.9 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 23.4 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.