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• Alexander Jacobus Lassche († 1981)
• Irene Mireille Kleijwegt., Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Rita Ligtenberg († 1994)

• Adriana Cornelia Aerts (77), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Kroezen (80), Almelo
• Albert van Loo (61), Zwolle
• Augustinus Bernardus Kusters (81), Baarle-Nassau
• Adriana Theodora van de Griendt (69), Waalwijk
• Anthonius Josephus van den Bosch (73), Haarlem
• Anna Flach (89)
• Antonie Bilman (92), Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bertha BODT (86), Doetinchem, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Bilman (92), Hellendoorn, 7447, Nederland

• 1975 » London Fletcher, American football player
• 1975 » Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 » Ed Cota, American basketball player
• 1976 » Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1977 » Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• 1977 » Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
• 1977 » Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress
• 1977 » Wouter Hamel, Dutch singer and guitarist
• 1978 » Dave Bus, Dutch footballer
• 1978 » Marcus Bent, English footballer

• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1969 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
• 1983 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic (b. 1906)
• 1986 » Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1987 » James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (b. 1910)

• 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 24 » The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
• March 27 » Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
• 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.
• September 7 » The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• September 25 » About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
• 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 May 19, 1977 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.