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• Johannes van der HEIDE
• Shannon Sue ALLEN († 1974)
• Lili Maal, Curaçao († 1996)
• NN Beekelaar, Hoogeveen

• Christiaan ter Horst (72), Amsterdam
• Arendje Guit (93), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Heijmans (60), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba Hartog, den (82), Den Helder
• * Aart 't Lam (62)
• Christina Castricum (77), Heemskerk
• Brainard Bradshaw Gracy Jr (82), Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co, Tennessee
• Antonius Elsendoorn (70), Utrecht
• Antonius Roest (84), Soest
• Alexander Kaptein (77), Rotterdam

• 1970 » Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress, and radio host
• 1971 » Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author and critic
• 1971 » Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Jay Powell, American baseball player
• 1972 » Rawson Stovall, American video game producer and author
• 1973 » Sean Paul, Jamaican rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor
• 1975 » James Beckford, Jamaican long jumper
• 1976 » Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 » Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)

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.
• May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
• August 1 » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
• October 8 » Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• November 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

The temperature on January 9, 1974 was between 0.7 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.