About the day » Saturday April 23, 1977Calender converter

• Sebastien (Seb) Dupont, Sint-Truiden, België († 2004)
• Daisy van Vliet († 2016)
• Cesare Joen-Mien Calor († 2016)

• Albert Joseph Schwartz (93), Kelso, Scott County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Keus (75)
• Berdina Johanna Louwers (51), amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriaan Hollebrandse (75), Utrecht
• Bertha BLANCKERS (77)
• Christiaan van der Star (85), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna de Graaf (83), Putten
• Adrianus de Waard (88), Barendrecht
• Adelaide H. HONEY (89), Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
• Anna LAAN (76), Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Pays-Bas

• 1975 » Bobby Shaw, American football player
• 1976 » Aaron Dessner, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1977 » Bram Schmitz, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 » David Kidwell, New Zealand rugby league player and coach
• 1977 » John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor
• 1977 » John Oliver, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 » Kal Penn, Indian-American actor
• 1977 » Lee Young-pyo, South Korean international footballer
• 1977 » Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian runner

• 1965 » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)
• 1966 » George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Red Garland, American pianist (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Sam Ervin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1896)
• 1986 » Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Otto Preminger, Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Robert
9. Michael
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.
• March 10 » Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
• April 5 » The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• May 31 » The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• August 12 » The first free flight of the Space ShuttleEnterprise.

The temperature on April 23, 1977 was between 7.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.