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• Cyrille Johannes Franciscus Stroink, Oldenzaal
• Benny Van Guysse, Sint Pauwels (B)
• Michal Moc († 2017)
• Dennis Gerhardus Albertus Stroink, Oldenzaal
• Kristopher J. BRAAKSMA († 1998)
• Tonja Kay Beekman, Yellow Medicine, MN
• Betsy Johanna Wacanno, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Catharina Adriana Josephina van Dal (65), Waalwijk
• Coenradus Kroesen (74), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha Virginia Sackx (84), Gent
• Cornelis De Vlieg (82)
• Byrdie Mae DAVID (68), Columbus, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Wilhelmina de Bruijn (73), Breda, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Jan Lubbartus van Beek (76), Geldermalsen
• Albert Stevens (90), Hoogeveen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Carolus Petrus Cornelis (Carool) Van der Sommen (51), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Cornelia Pronk (89), Scheveningen

• 1972 » Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Aleksandr Olerski, Estonian footballer († 2011)
• 1973 » Donyell Marshall, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1975 » Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 » John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
• 1976 » Marko Tomasović, Croatian pianist and composer
• 1976 » Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1976 » Ron Mercer, American basketball player

• 1963 » Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (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.
• July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
• August 15 » Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
• November 16 » The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
• November 23 » Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.

The temperature on May 18, 1974 was between 9.3 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.