About the day » Saturday November 9, 1974Calender converter

• Kenneth Simon Kloosterhuis, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada († 1975)
• Claudia Angelique Lafort, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1994)
• Walter-Frido Willemse, Standdaarbuiten († 1997)
• Martinus Wesseling, Assen († 2012)

• CORNELIA BUIJNINK (67), DELFT
• Carl Samuel Sickler (38), Dallas Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Lamberts (76)
• Adriana Biemans (87), Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Lanser (86), Sliedrecht
• Augustus Frederick Machetanz (97)
• Bertha Mae Scruggs (79), Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Aloys Moens (79), Reet
• Anna Clara Christina Bredendiek (77), Rotterdam
• Elisabeth Willems (68), Ewijk

• 1972 » Eric Dane, American actor
• 1972 » Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1973 » Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
• 1973 » Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
• 1973 » Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1973 » Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
• 1974 » Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
• 1974 » Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
• 1975 » Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
• 1975 » Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer

• 1962 » Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1968 » Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
• 1970 » Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1890)
• 1976 » Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
• 1988 » David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (b. 1924)
• 1988 » John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)

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. Nicole
13. Jolanda
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.
• January 19 » China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam
• February 8 » After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
• October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
• 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 November 9, 1974 was between 5.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.