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• Anthonie van IELEN (64), Hoogvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrea Flores (91), Riverside
• Antonio Waldowski (77), Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brasil
• Albert Desmytter (61), Roeselare
• Cornelis Slijkhuis (57), Vaassen
• Anna Pavlovic (84), Kerkrade (hamboskliniek)
• Arlette Marie Louise Henriette de Castellane (76), Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
• Annigje Jonkman (71), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonie[Anton] van Ielen (64), Hoogvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Jan Vader (86), Valkenisse,Walcheren, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1975 » Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
• 1975 » Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player
• 1976 » Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
• 1976 » Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Amos Lee, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 » Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
• 1978 » Frank Lampard, English footballer
• 1978 » Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer
• 1979 » Charles Howell III, American golfer
• 1980 » Franco Semioli, Italian footballer

• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1997 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)

• 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.
• 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.
• March 10 » Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
• 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.
• August 18 » Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• October 6 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

The temperature on June 20, 1977 was between 10.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.