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• Natalie Brigitta van der Zalm, Amsterdam
• Shannon ten Berge
• Michael James de Groot, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Luut Martinus Stubbe, Gouda, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Bert Barelds, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1983)

• Alle de Haan (92), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoon van den Dungen (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Visconti di Modrone, dei Duchi Grazzano Visconti di Modrone (73), Grazzano Visconti, Provincia di Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• Aldegonda Maria Paulina van Eijk (55), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Coenradina Westerink (93), USA
• Anna Visconti (73)
• Andreas Josephus Warrens (74), Amsterdam
• Andreas Josephus Warrens (74), Amsterdam
• Christianus Dommisse (49), Middelburg
• Coenradina Westerink (91), U.S.A

• 1975 » Aries Spears, American comedian and actor
• 1975 » Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player
• 1975 » Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player
• 1975 » Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 » Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player
• 1978 » John Smit, South African rugby player
• 1978 » Matthew Goode, English actor
• 1978 » Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
• 1979 » Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach

• 1971 » Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
• 1976 » Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1976 » David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1983 » Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)

• 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.
• January 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 13 » Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
• November 25 » Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.

The temperature on April 3, 1977 was between 0.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.