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• Rolien Post († 1992)
• Gerard van der Woerdt
• Willem Frederik Holtrop († 1980)

• Anna Tiems (90)
• Adriana Hensen (74), Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Wilhelmina van Aar (78), Rosmalen
• Barend Ottenhof (72), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Anthony Ruys (67), Nederweert, Gemeente Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland
• Catharina Helena Johanna Goris (98), Herwen en Aerdt Gld
• Arnoldus Pelkman (80), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina Ooms (80), Halsteren,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Seiler (82), Hattem, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Maria BECKS (81), Arnhem (NL/GE)

• 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
• 1977 » Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1977 » Shane Williams, Welsh rugby union player
• 1977 » Tim Thomas, American basketball player

• 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. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. David
6. Mark
7. Michael
8. Patrick
9. Richard
10. Dennis
11. Robert
12. Hendrik
13. Paul
14. Martijn
15. Bart
16. Pieter

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

• 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 13.6 million citizens.
• February 4 » Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
• April 9 » The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
• April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
• June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• July 30 » Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• November 10 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

The temperature on February 26, 1975 was between -0.7 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.