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• Katrijn Huygens
• Paulus Wilhelmus Antonius Oprins, Gilze en Rijen

• Bartholomeus Chaudron (91), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Maria van Hoof (89), Tilburg NB Netherlands
• Bessie Arick (83), Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Birdie Bertha Reagan (34), Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia
• Adriaan Jacobus Johannes Bakker (71), Maarssen
• Barbara Lee Roberts (66), Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi
• Adrianus Johannes den Ouden (63), Hamburg, Duitsland
• Anna van Zandwijk (88), Julianadorp, den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Schokker (66), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Garritsen (71), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1976 » Darius Regelskis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 » Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 » Kęstutis Šeštokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1976 » Steve Williams, English rower
• 1977 » Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
• 1977 » Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor
• 1978 » Chris Stapleton, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 » Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1978 » Milton Bradley, American baseball player
• 1978 » Tim Corcoran, American baseball player

• 1966 » Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
• 1967 » Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)

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 18 » SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• July 22 » Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• September 18 » Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• October 7 » The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

The temperature on April 15, 1977 was between 1.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.