About the day » Tuesday April 16, 1974Calender converter

• Ramon A. "Ray" Shanklin († 2015)
• Dominique Stooker, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Grinetta Langenberg († 2007)
• Katie PADWORSKI, California

• Christiaan Hendrikus Heeremans (69), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ati van Dongen (64), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Meint Woldringh (79), Bennekom
• Achiel Josef Debosschere (71), Tiegem (W-VL) België
• Antonin Benoît "Maxime" Jacquin Jacquin de Margerie (88), Paris
• Claude GÉRARD (37)
• Anna Koeman (82), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Steinen (57), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Wouters de Vries (85), Roden, Drenthe, Nederland
• * Hendricus Theodorus Bouman (82)

• 1971 » Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
• 1971 » Selena, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer († 1995)
• 1972 » Conchita Martínez, Spanish-American tennis player
• 1972 » Tracy K. Smith, American poet and educator
• 1973 » Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
• 1973 » Charlotta Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1973 » Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
• 1975 » Keon Clark, American basketball player
• 1976 » Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1976 » Lukas Haas, American actor and musician

• 1968 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 » István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)

• 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 21 » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
• February 22 » The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
• April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
• May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
• November 16 » The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.

The temperature on April 16, 1974 was between 3.5 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (93%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.