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• Willem Diederik Anthony Huydecoper, ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands († 1978)

• Adriana Boot (74), Steenbergen
• Bernardus Miltenburg (82)
• Bertha D'hulst (75), Aalter
• Anna Maria van Assouw (74), Tilburg
• Clemens Constantinus Van den Hemel (80), Sint Laureins (O-VL) België
• Aukje Jans Snip (83), Oosterwolde
• Berloris Mea Beek (52), George, Lyon County, Iowa
• Amelia Jansegers (80), Oppuurs
• Catriena T. De Gelder (70), Ridderkerk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Amelia Mantus (84), Cuckfield, West Sussex, England

• 1975 » Bas Leinders, Belgian race car driver
• 1976 » Anna Smashnova, Belarusian-Israeli tennis player
• 1976 » Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguayan footballer
• 1976 » Tomasz Kuchar, Polish race car driver
• 1977 » Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient († 2006)
• 1979 » Chris Mihm, American basketball player
• 1979 » Kim Rhode, American sport shooter
• 1979 » Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer
• 1979 » Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
• 1979 » Nathan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1982 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• 1985 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
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.
• January 19 » President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
• March 11 » The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
• 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.
• September 12 » South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.

The temperature on July 16, 1977 was between 5.7 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.