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• Wilhelmus Cornelis (Wilco) Buurman, Angeren († 1974)
• Ingrid Patricia Natasja Slijkhuis, Vlaardingen († 1992)
• Femke Buissing, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mellisa Kay Kittrell * <K ||| FgcOKBu>2, Maysville, Garvin County, Oklahoma ac († 1974)
• Geert Duelen, Bilzen († 1979)

• Arie Harteveld (88)
• Aleida Maria Peters (65), Den Helder
• Bareld Sjirks Bijma (83)
• Adrianus Henricus Smits (92), Rotterdam
• Arend Pieter Van Der KNAAP (82), Gouda
• Arthur Jozef DE BRUYN (72), Beveren, België
• Arnoud van der Ham (4), Leiden (ZH, NLD)
• Bareld Sierks Bijma (83), Surhuisterveen
• Aaltje Glas (75), Harlingen
• Arnoldus Fransiscus Emmerik (84), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1972 » Komla Dumor, Ghanaian-English journalist († 2014)
• 1973 » Angélica Gavaldón, American-Mexican tennis player and coach
• 1973 » Eirik Hegdal, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 1973 » Lena Headey, British actress
• 1973 » Neve Campbell, Canadian actress and producer
• 1974 » Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
• 1974 » Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1975 » India Arie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1975 » Phil Greening, English rugby player and coach
• 1975 » Satoko Ishimine, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (b. 1887)
• 1986 » Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Jeroen
5. Peter
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.
• March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• August 9 » As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• September 10 » Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 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.
• 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 October 3, 1974 was between 0.4 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.