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• Niels CUENEN († 1977)
• Jan-karel van den Brink, Renswoude († 2012)
• Arjen Bakker († 1999)

• Cornelis Joannes van den Broek (69), Tilburg
• Carroll W HARDING (63), Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States
• Franciscus Jacobs (62), Kapellen, Provincie Antwerpen
• Derk Jan Mellendijk (62), Doetinchem
• Aagje Fransdr Wiering (71), Gemeente Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Allen George Victor Simmons (34), Wiltshire, England
• Elisabeth Dekkers (88), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Agnes Maria Johanna van de Koolwijk (9), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Emma Katherine Stelljes (93)
• Cornelia Kroon (83)

• 1975 » Eric Szmanda, American actor
• 1975 » Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Torrie Wilson, American model, fitness competitor, actress and professional wrestler
• 1975 » Tracey Crouch, English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1976 » Rafer Alston, American basketball player
• 1976 » Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese race car driver and manager
• 1978 » Andy Irons, American surfer († 2010)
• 1979 » Jerrod Niemann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Rose Byrne, Australian actress
• 1979 » Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver

• 1965 » Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 1969 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
• 1974 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1980 » Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1986 » Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)
• 1991 » Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

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.
• May 31 » The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• July 22 » Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• September 5 » Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
• September 7 » The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
• October 14 » Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.
• December 6 » South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

The temperature on July 24, 1977 was between 13.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.