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• Tim Sebastiaan Leijzer, Doetinchem († 1975)
• Angèle Bianca Maria Magdalena Blankenstein, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Lubbertus Bartus van Malenstijn, Barneveld († 1978)
• Tim Sebastiaan Leijzer, Doetinchem († 1975)
• Jantje Buisman, het ziekenhuis in Alkmaar († 1975)
• Marco Vermaat († 1993)
• Judith Kunnen († 1976)
• Rogier Rijsdijk († 2003)
• Lubbertus Bartus van Malenstijn, Barneveld († 1978)

• Cornelia Frederika Pannekoek (88)
• Barbara Kajim (76), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Agnes Maria Elisabeth Meijers (68), Nijmegen
• Bonifacius Rudolfus Velner (67), Heerenveen
• Berend Johannes Berends (64), Groningen
• Aubrey Frank Boyce (77), Holbeach Lincs
• Adriaan Marinus Cornelis Stok (73), Wassenaar
• Catherine Kittie Tebeau (84), Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
• Angenieta Erkelens (72), Dordrecht
• Albertus Geerts (85), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1974 » Ahmet Zappa, American musician and writer
• 1974 » Marko Tredup, German footballer and manager
• 1974 » Matthew Sadler, English chess player and author
• 1974 » Vasilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player and politician
• 1975 » Ales Michalevic, Belarusian lawyer and politician
• 1975 » Ray Lewis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1976 » Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
• 1976 » Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
• 1976 » Ryan Leaf, American football player and coach
• 1976 » Torraye Braggs, American basketball player

• 1965 » Pio Pion, Italian businessman (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Italo Mus, Italian painter (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Joe Malone, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and playwright (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Gordon Prange, American historian and author (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1984 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer (b. 1947)

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. Pieter
16. Bart

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.
• January 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
• March 10 » Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
• March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 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.
• December 2 » Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
• December 6 » The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.

The temperature on May 15, 1975 was between 8.1 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.