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• Ivo van Veen, Holten, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jennifer Michelle Denzin, Anaheim, Orange, California, United States († 1996)
• Natasja Henneman, Alkmaar († 2022)
• antoine pijpers
• Sierd Jarig Tittes Trinks († 1995)
• Deborah Anne Mason, South Africa
• Frans Siewert Wieringa, Usquert († 2021)

• Cornelia Jacoba (Cor) Erkelens (55), Dordrecht
• Andries van de Belt (77), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Curtis Loving Godfrey (57), Bryan, Brazos, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Petronella van de Heijden (65), Hooglanderveen
• Boris Kurakin (66), Buenos Aires
• Antonetta Leonhard (82), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje Idema (73)
• Andries van Van De Belt (77), Zwolle
• Adriana Wilhelmina Kaptein (77), Rotterdam
• Alida Maria van Tunen (76), Beverwijk

• 1972 » Brad Radke, American baseball player
• 1972 » Elissa, Lebanese singer
• 1972 » Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
• 1972 » Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
• 1973 » Jason Johnson, American baseball player
• 1973 » Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1975 » Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
• 1975 » Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1976 » Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler

• 1962 » Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
• 1962 » Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
• 1974 » C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
• 1977 » James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
• 1980 » John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
• 1988 » Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)

• 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 4 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
• February 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
• August 5 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
• September 12 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
• December 1 » TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
• December 13 » Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

The temperature on October 27, 1974 was between 6.6 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.