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• Peter Margriet Alphons Egidius Chorus, Tegelen,5931,Venlo,Limburg,Nederland
• Jeannie Lynn VanderWall, Spring Lake Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Jamie Sue VanderWall, Spring Lake Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• sandra h.m. (sandra) peeters, helden-dorp
• Paul Rob Wilhelmina Elisabeth Chorus, Tegelen,5931,Venlo,Limburg,Nederland

• Aaltje Volkers (58), Zaandam, Nederland
• Bastiana Krommenhoek (72), Schiedam
• Aaltje Simondr Volkers (58), Sint Pancras, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Anna Christina Marsman (88), Utrecht
• Alouisius Antonius Seesing (68)
• Arnoldus Franciscus Maria ARENDSE (69), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan GORDIJN (74), Leiden
• Carrie Blommers (94), Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
• Anna Aleida Tenfelde (76), Weiteveen, Coevorden, Dre, Nederland
• Barend Jacobus VAN DER WESTHUIZEN (36)

• 1976 » Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1976 » Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
• 1977 » Angela Goethals, American actress
• 1977 » Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer
• 1977 » Matt Czuchry, American actor
• 1977 » Stirling Mortlock, Australian rugby player
• 1977 » Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 » Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
• 1978 » Nils Schumann, German runner
• 1978 » Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter

• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

• 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 2 » Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
• March 9 » The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
• April 7 » German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• May 18 » Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
• June 10 » James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.

The temperature on May 20, 1977 was between 8.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.