About the day » Thursday February 21, 1974Calender converter

• Jeroen van der Steen, Heemskerk
• Brad James Bumbarger, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 2014)
• Theodora Kouwenhoven, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anthony Mercelina
• Lucia Willemien Diepens, Eindhoven († 2000)

• Anna de Vreugd (66), Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antje Knigge (79)
• Annegien Gerards Dikken (70), Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Agnès Maria DECROOS (61), Wilskerke,8431,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Cornelis Josephus Antonius Schaapsmeerders (65), Tilburg
• Anna Vos (84), Zeist
• Christiaan Franciscus Beurskens (86), Maasbree
• Aalbertus Jan Ooms (88), Heiloo
• Annegien Dikken (70), Vollenhove
• Anne Visser (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1971 » Pierre Fulke, Swedish golfer
• 1972 » Seo Taiji, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1973 » Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Heri Joensen, Faroese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
• 1975 » Scott Miller, Australian swimmer
• 1976 » Michael McIntyre, English comedian, actor and television presenter
• 1976 » Ryan Smyth, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Jonathan Safran Foer, American novelist
• 1977 » Steve Francis, American basketball player

• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

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 7 » Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
• May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
• June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• August 30 » A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.

The temperature on February 21, 1974 was between 0.3 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.