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• Ilse Teurlings († 2017)
• Sjoerd Jan Stilma, Woerden († 1974)
• Rogier Bosman, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Angelique van der Burg, Aye, Luxemburg, België
• Fabienne Marie Danielle Anjoras, Saint Etienne, Frankrijk
• Brian Alan Ritter († 2017)
• john hunnekens, helden-beringe († 1998)

• Dirk Willem van Hilten (74), Santa Anna County, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Hamers (79), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelus Rijsdijk (84)
• Antje Postmus (51)
• Anton Urich (51), Edenkoben, Landau, Rijnland-Pfalz. Dld
• Dirk van Baaren (69), Alkmaar
• Derk Jan Meinen (90), Winterswijk
• David Arnold Pressly Jr. (84), San Bernardino, San Bernardinon County, California
• Antonia Maria van Dongen (84), Etten en Leur
• André Wolfs (18)

• 1971 » Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer
• 1971 » Super Caló, Mexican wrestler
• 1972 » Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
• 1972 » Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach
• 1973 » Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist († 2013)
• 1973 » Scott Phillips, American drummer and producer
• 1974 » Chris Moyles, English radio and television host
• 1974 » James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Frédéric Mariotti, French actor (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Winthrop Rockefeller, American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 1976 » Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1980 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1982 » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)

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.
• February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
• July 28 » Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
• August 1 » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
• September 1 » The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353km/h).
• September 25 » Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

The temperature on February 22, 1974 was between 1.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.