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• Amy Lynne van den Bosch
• Tom Jansen, Mol, België († 1978)

• Bertha Ursula Meerschaut (71), Oudenaarde
• Antonius van Berne (70), Aarle-Rixtel
• Adrianus Maria Hubertus Farla (35), Zevenbergen
• Antoon van Zoeren (73)
• Carolus van der Meijden (70), Vlijmen
• Carolus Gaston Verduyn (71), Roeselare
• Adriana Jacoba Ott (73), Voorburg
• Catharina Johanna de Blois (91), ,, Schipluiden, Nederland
• Christiaan van den Heuvel (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• DtrHoward R Dow (68), Fairview, Richland County, Montana

• 1972 » Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1972 » Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1973 » Donnie Edwards, American football player
• 1973 » Randall Godfrey, American football player
• 1973 » Rie Miyazawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1973 » Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
• 1975 » Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist
• 1976 » James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)

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.
• March 29 » Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
• April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
• May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• September 11 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
• 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 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

The temperature on April 6, 1974 was between 4.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.