About the day » Thursday August 11, 1977Calender converter

• Wesley VERDOREN, Antwerpen
• Rozemarijn Verdin, Sint-Truiden, België († 1996)
• Martina Marie Ramsdell, Lackland AFB, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Kitty Bogaerts

• Anna Wybrens Groenewoud (77), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Snippe (76)
• Aagje Koopman (86), Vlaardingen
• Cora Edna Fox (78)
• Albert Ludwig (70), Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Betty M. Bissmeyer (Bismeyer) (44), Tulare, Tulare Co., California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Pieter Sandee (68), Yerseke
• Clara Dorothy Steffen (84), Seattle, King, Washington
• Della Rae Smith (70), Cottonwood, Yavapi Co.Arizona
• Adrianus Montenij (78), Rotterdam

• 1976 » Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1976 » Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• 1976 » Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Will Friedle, American actor and screenwriter
• 1977 » Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Charlotte Leslie, British politician
• 1978 » Lillian Nakate, Ugandan politician
• 1978 » Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer

• 1969 » Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)
• 1979 » J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
• 1980 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Tom Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–American chemist and chess player (b. 1916)

• 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.
• March 4 » The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
• April 11 » London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
• June 10 » James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• August 13 » Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
• December 4 » Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.

The temperature on August 11, 1977 was between 11.1 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.