About the day » Monday April 1, 1974Calender converter

• Louise Alberta Maria Geubbels († 1991)
• Marjo Boelen, Emmen
• Jossiane Bernardo, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1974)
• Ivar Kooren, Rozenburg
• Hendrientje Marianne Ruitenberg, Putten († 1975)

• Alice de Jonge (48), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Verhoofstad (60), Waalwijk
• Adrianus van Liemde (58), Tilburg
• Casparus Johannes Jutte (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Hoek (92), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice May Murphy (58)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Savelkoul (69), Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Savelkoul (69), Grevenbicht
• Adrian Joseph ZAAT (73), Ojai, Ventura, California
• Antoinette Cosijns (73), Merksem

• 1972 » Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1972 » Jesse Tobias, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1973 » Christian Finnegan, American comedian and actor
• 1973 » Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author
• 1973 » Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1974 » Hugo Ibarra, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1975 » John Butler, American-Australian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 » Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1976 » David Gilliland, American race car driver
• 1976 » Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator

• 1962 » Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)
• 1965 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)

• 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 2 » United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
• December 22 » Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
• December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.

The temperature on April 1, 1974 was between 2.9 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.