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• Paul WEILLER Y TORLONIA, Paris Île-de-France France († 1983)
• Jacob PATHUIS († 1974)
• Johannes Wilhlmus Hoogeveen, Alkmaar († 1974)

• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Koenraads (63), Naaldwijk
• Franciscus Jacobus Ruigrok (79), De Lier,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amalia Ellenberger (87), Multnomah, Oregon
• Geertje Dirksdr van der Poorte (75), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina, Alida van Muijden (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth van Bassewitz (83), Berlijn
• Bastiaan Van Der SCHANS (93), Rotterdam
• Fransina Verploeg (67)
• Arie van der Plas (73)
• Ambrosius Josephus Carolus Bohle (81), Amsterdam

• 1972 » Milka Duno, Venezuelan race car driver and engineer
• 1972 » Owen Finegan, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1972 » Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
• 1972 » Sergei Hohlov-Simson, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Adem Poric, English-Australian footballer
• 1973 » Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1974 » Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1975 » Anders Nyström, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
• 1975 » Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
• 1975 » Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver († 1999)

• 1968 » Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (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. Nicole
13. Jolanda
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Saskia

• 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 8 » Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• March 29 » NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
• June 30 » The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
• July 20 » Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
• November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.

The temperature on April 22, 1974 was between -0.9 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.