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• Rozamarijn Dieudonnee Bolt, Zwolle
• Casper Manders, Eindhoven
• Gerbrigje Leffertstra, Echtenerbrug, lemsterland.fr.nld († 1989)
• Monique Nijhoff
• Alma Eikelboom, Nieuwleusen († 2015)
• Stacia Kay Sikkema, Joliette, Will County, Illinois († 1977)
• Inge Carolien van Dam, Bedum

• Broer Eeke Zondervan (60)
• ADRIANUS PRINS (88)
• Bregje KRAAIJER (82), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Aafje Koens (79), Klazienaveen, Emmen
• Anna Maria Hendriks (70), Drunen
• Arnoldus Johannes Marinus Klumpers (74), Helmond, Noord-Brabant
• Anthonius van der STEEN (61), Limmen
• Albert aan het Rot (73)
• Ana Maria de Campos (65), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arthur Pinkney Cribb (64)

• 1974 » Adrian Griffin, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Jill Craybas, American tennis player
• 1974 » La'Roi Glover, American football player and sportscaster
• 1976 » Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer († 2003)
• 1976 » Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Russian skier
• 1978 » Émile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
• 1978 » Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
• 1979 » Josh McCown, American football player
• 1979 » Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer
• 1979 » Siim Kabrits, Estonian politician

• 1970 » Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1971 » August Derleth, American anthologist and author (b. 1909)
• 1971 » Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
• 1974 » André Randall, French actor (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli colonel (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (b. 1918)
• 1979 » Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (b. 1895)

• 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 14 » A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
• May 31 » The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• July 4 » The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
• August 20 » Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• 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 4, 1977 was between 14.3 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.