About the day » Sunday July 17, 1977Calender converter

• Augustinus Moonen (77), Oisterwijk
• Christian Andrew Willemssen (84), Springfield, Brown County, Minnesota
• Aaldert Schonewille (70), Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands
• Bartha Verweij (68), Deventer
• Aaltje Geerlings (70), Hengelo
• Adriaan Rietveld (89), Rotterdam
• Adriana van den Elsen (84), Someren-Eind
• Arend van den Berg (82), Schipluiden (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus Moonen (77), Oisterwijk
• Berend Bol (64), Apeldoorn, Gld, The Netherlands

• 1976 » Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer and sportscaster
• 1976 » Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress
• 1976 » Gino D'Acampo, Italian chef and author
• 1976 » Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Marcos Senna, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
• 1977 » Andrew Downton, Australian cricketer
• 1977 » Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist
• 1977 » Marc Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Panda Bear, American musician and songwriter
• 1978 » Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist

• 1961 » Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
• 1961 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1967 » John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)
• 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1991 » John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Robert
9. Michael
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 18 » Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
• January 20 » Jimmy Carter is inaugurated the 39th President of the United States of America.
• 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".
• July 20 » The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
• September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• December 13 » Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the team.

The temperature on July 17, 1977 was between 12.4 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.