About the day » Monday December 16, 1974Calender converter

• Chantal, Rianka Masselink, Den Helder / Noord-Holland
• Henriëtte Johanna Hendrika Hampsink, Maasbree
• Iwan Schoffelmeer, Vlaardingen,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1997)
• Iwan Ronne Maria SCHOFFELMEER, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Nicole van den Nieuwboer, Hegelsom († 1997)

• Attje Koelman (57), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Huiberts (50), Nieuw-Vennep
• Aafje Hoogkamp (64)
• Antonius G.J. Wesseling
• Antonius Jacobus Huijbregts (59), Zeist
• Abel van Dijken (79)
• Adrianus van Dorst (69)
• Arie Verschuur (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Bonne Zeewuster (85), Rolde,Drenthe,Niederlande,Grolloo
• Abraham van Dijk (62), Amsterdam

• 1972 » Charles Gipson, American baseball player
• 1972 » Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Travis Morrison, American singer-songwriter
• 1973 » Scott Storch, American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company
• 1973 » Themba Mnguni, South African footballer
• 1975 » Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Kaba Diawara, French-Guinean footballer
• 1975 » Paul Maynard, English politician
• 1975 » Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Jen Golbeck, American computer scientist and academic

• 1968 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player (b. 1899)
• 1969 » Soe Hok Gie, Indonesian activist and academic (b. 1942)
• 1970 » Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of Latin America (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1976 » Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Risto Jarva, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 1980 » Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer (b. 1900)

• 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
• March 9 » The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 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.
• December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.

The temperature on December 16, 1974 was between 2.6 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 11.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.