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• Jan-Peter den HARTIGH, Dordrecht († 1998)
• Stephanie Lee Barendregt († 2003)

• Augustinus Emilius van de Vorst (50), Eindhoven
• Anna Maria Petronella Blom (75), Amstelveen
• Antje Rietdijk (83), Heemskerk
• Anna May Trisco (73), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
• Bernard Joseph McNally (93), Kildress, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Albert Rodenhouse (86), Grand Rapids-Michigan (USA)
• Abraham Kroon (85), Hoorn
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Hendrica Luneman (82), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Camiel Cyriel Degoe (74), Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Aleida Johanna Cornelissen (68)

• 1971 » Jeordie White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bass player
• 1971 » Rodney Rogers, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 » Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer
• 1973 » Chino Moreno, American singer-songwriter
• 1975 » Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
• 1975 » Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player
• 1976 » Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
• 1976 » Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Amos Lee, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 » Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player

• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)

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 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
• February 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
• June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• August 1 » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
• August 7 » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.
• September 12 » Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

The temperature on June 20, 1974 was between 8.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.