About the day » Wednesday March 6, 1974Calender converter

• Koen Paesen
• James Robert Boyce Jr., St. Mary's Hospital, Centralia, Marion County, Illinois († 1974)
• Hijmen van Twillert († 1989)
• Wanda Riem († 1974)
• Angela Simone Wachtmeester, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2018)

• Albert Pees (76), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Annechien van der Es (70)
• Cornelis Elisabeth GILLESEN (58), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Tonnissen (76), Bergen
• Andries Groeneveld (84), Bergen op Zoom
• ALICE OCTAVIE GILLARD (90), VAIRES-SUR-MARNE
• Cornelia van Erp (78), Boxtel
• Albert van Cleemput (73), Hoboken
• Burt Russell GARLICK (83), City of Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
• Cornelis van Pelt (72), Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland)

• 1973 » Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
• 1973 » Michael Finley, American basketball player
• 1973 » Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
• 1973 » Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Beanie Sigel, American rapper
• 1974 » Brad Schumacher, American swimmer
• 1974 » Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Matthew Guy, Australian politician
• 1975 » Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
• 1975 » Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor

• 1967 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 » Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1970 » William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1973 » Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 » Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)
• 1981 » George Geary, English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)

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.
• February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
• February 22 » The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
• April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
• September 11 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
• December 19 » Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The temperature on March 6, 1974 was between -1.3 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.