About the day » Sunday August 7, 1977Calender converter

• Ariane DEDECKER, ST-MICHIELS

• Christiaan Jans Schonewille (80), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Augustinus Maria Franciscus Jansen (38), Turnhout (België)
• Carl Henry Jepsen (84), Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States of America
• ANNA MARIA CORREMANS (89), Hoboken
• Door Burger- (91), Velsen, Nederland
• Dieuwertje van Duijn (74), Katwijk
• Anna Christina Hoogestraat (84), Brookings, Brookings County, South Dakota
• Adrian Floyd Statser (68), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Christiaan Johan Wijngaard (83), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Arie den Daas (56), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1975 » Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1976 » Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1976 » Shane Lechler, American football player
• 1977 » Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer
• 1977 » Justin Brooker, Rugby League Player
• 1977 » Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
• 1978 » Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Cirroc Lofton, American actor
• 1978 » Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer

• 1969 » Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)
• 1969 » Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)
• 1972 » Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)
• 1973 » Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1974 » Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)

• 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 » SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• June 27 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
• June 30 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
• October 17 » The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
• December 1 » Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.
• 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 7, 1977 was between 14.4 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.