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• Michel Bodok
• Anke Daems, Geel († 1985)

• Barend Jan van der Sluis (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Edwin VINEY (63), Tasmania, Australia
• Bastiaan (Bas) Veth (78), Maassluis
• Cornelia Catharina Meijning (75), Amsterdam
• Arendina Lamberink (79), Oldehove
• Anna Margaretha Visscher (76), Groningen
• Bastiaan van NIELEN (68), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Antonius Hendrikus Bos (64)
• Alice Della Krueger (65), Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
• Antonius Johannes Laros (76), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1973 » Ami Onuki, Japanese singer and voice actress
• 1973 » James Marsden, American actor
• 1973 » Louise Sauvage, Australian wheelchair racer
• 1973 » Mário Jardel, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 » Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian, singer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Damon Jones, American football player and coach
• 1974 » Sol Campbell, English footballer and politician
• 1974 » Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
• 1974 » Xzibit, American rapper, actor, and television host

• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880)
• 1967 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
• 1975 » Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (b. 1907)
• 1977 » Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (b. 1890)

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 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
• February 23 » The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
• June 27 » U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• July 26 » Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
• 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 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

The temperature on September 18, 1974 was between 6.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.