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• Tina Ivy de Vroome († 2010)
• Willem Alexander Kooiman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• roland diederik schraa († 2022)

• Clasina Gijsberta van Dissel (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van As (86), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alexander Wilhelmus Verwaaijen (80), Klarenbeek, Nederland
• Ada Emmaline Fowler (81), Horry County, South Carolina
• Agnes Cramers (76), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Klaassen (58), Enkhuizen
• Derkje Mik (83)
• Anna Catharina Neijenhof (74), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Hazelhoff (61), Groningen
• Anna Lee Wilkerson (55), Columbia, Boone, Missouri, Verenigde Staten

• 1972 » Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 » Carmen Electra, American model and actress
• 1972 » Lê Huỳnh Đức, Vietnamese footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 » Stephen Marley, American singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1973 » Isabel dos Santos, Angolan businesswoman and first African woman billionaire
• 1973 » Lamond Murray, American basketball player
• 1974 » Adrian Ilie, Romanian footballer
• 1974 » Julie Fernandez, English actress and model
• 1974 » Urmas Paet, Estonian journalist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1975 » Killer Mike, American rapper and activist

• 1961 » Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1968 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1969 » Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)

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. 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.
• February 8 » After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
• April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
• April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
• May 1 » The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
• May 15 » Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
• May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.

The temperature on April 20, 1974 was between 0.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.