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• Renate Bernet Harmsen († 2012)
• Bart Wauters
• Claudia Fredriksz, Aye-Belgie
• Olaf Groenewegen

• Abram Boon (76), Broek op L'dijk
• Charles Victor Luckett (69), Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Charles Eugene Mellier (60), Orange, New South Wales, Australia
• Anton C SOULEK (82), Brule, Brule, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Bosker (82), Usquert
• Cornelia Aartje van Everdingen (89), Rotterdam (NL)
• Cornelia Clasina Noordermeer (77), Haarlem
• Anthonia Johanna de Meij (82)
• Catharina Johanna Beers (83), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Simons Daalder (91), Den Helder, Netherlands

• 1972 » Ang Christou, Australian footballer
• 1972 » Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager
• 1972 » Joe Horn, American football player and coach
• 1972 » Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
• 1972 » Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1974 » John Hopoate, Tongan-Australian rugby league player and boxer
• 1974 » Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
• 1974 » Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1976 » Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
• 1976 » Viktor Maslov, Russian race car driver

• 1967 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
• 1972 » Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)

• 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.
• September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 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 13 » Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
• 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.
• November 21 » The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.

The temperature on January 16, 1974 was between 4.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.