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• Shannon Sue ALLEN († 1974)
• NN Beekelaar, Hoogeveen
• Lili Maal, Curaçao († 1996)
• Johannes van der HEIDE

• Carrie Stene (89), Beresford, Lincoln, South Dakota, United States
• Antonius Heijmans (60), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfons Joseph Tant (33), Bruges
• Christiaan Ter HORST (72), Amsterdam
• Cornelia Jacoba Hartog, den (82), Den Helder
• Alexander Kaptein (77), Rotterdam
• Christiaan ter Horst (72), Amsterdam
• Alberdina DE GROOT (69)
• Cornelis de Rooy (68), Wouw
• Charlie Samuel Todd ?**** (87), Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten

• 1970 » Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress, and radio host
• 1971 » Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author and critic
• 1971 » Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Jay Powell, American baseball player
• 1972 » Rawson Stovall, American video game producer and author
• 1973 » Sean Paul, Jamaican rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor
• 1975 » James Beckford, Jamaican long jumper
• 1976 » Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 » Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)

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. 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.
• February 21 » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
• April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
• May 1 » The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
• May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
• 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 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.

The temperature on January 9, 1974 was between 0.7 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.