About the day » Friday August 26, 1977Calender converter

• Jappe l'Amie
• Patricia van Beek de Leeuw, Ede, Nederland († 1977)
• Wallace Calvin Kittrell Jr. <?K BdTxBI>, Dallas County, Texas († 1977)
• Aschwin Reginald Christina

• Anna Gerarda Maria Hesp (72), Kortenhoef
• Albert H Hoekzema (77), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
• Anna Catharina Nollen (93), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Geerts de Vries (82), Suameer
• Bokke VAN DER PLOEG (70), Bolsward Friesland Netherlands
• Cornelis Grootendorst (88)
• Bieltje Hendriks Kriek (64), Hilversum
• Bastiaan Los (88), De Meern, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes van Houten (74), Den Haag
• Albert Hendrik Wendelin baron de Kock (55), Bussum,Gemeente Bussum,North Holland,Netherlands

• 1975 » Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player and coach
• 1976 » Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1976 » Mike Colter, American actor
• 1977 » Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer
• 1977 » Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1977 » Simone Motta, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer
• 1979 » Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1979 » Jamal Lewis, American football player
• 1979 » Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer

• 1974 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 » H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1978 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)

• 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 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".
• March 24 » Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
• April 21 » Annie opens on Broadway.
• May 18 » Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
• November 14 » During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
• December 1 » Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.

The temperature on August 26, 1977 was between 11.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.