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• Elisabeth Johanna Jansen, Utrecht († 2006)
• Dorothea Willemina"Wilma" van Harten, Barneveld († 2013)

• Allegonda Petronella van Geene (84), Rotterdam
• Cornelisje van der Molen (78), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kuijt (91), Katwijk
• Charles Munson Bullock (71), Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Antonius van Dijke (85), Ossendrecht
• Antonius Cornelis Toon) Ligtenberg (80), Dongen
• Cornelis Antonius Maria (Kees) Dekkers (65), Dongen
• Andreas Leopold Hautvast (76), Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arnold Wouterus Brons (82), Ermelo
• Albert Waterink (62), Hardenberg

• 1971 » Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1971 » Hélène Segara, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Max Martin, Swedish-American record producer and songwriter
• 1973 » Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
• 1973 » Marshall Faulk, American football player
• 1973 » Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, Filipina television actress, host and equestrienne
• 1974 » Sébastien Loeb, French race car driver
• 1976 » Chad Urmston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematician

• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Jolanda
13. Nicole
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Jennifer

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• February 4 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
• July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
• September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• November 21 » The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
• November 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• November 23 » Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.

The temperature on February 26, 1974 was between -1.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.