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• Brian Lee Gruis, Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Mynhardt Gerhardus Krabbendam, Pretoria (SA)
• Brian Dennis (Oats) Omann, Baldwin, St Croix, Wisconsin, VS († 2016)
• Barbara van der Weegen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cynthia Anne Geisler, Bloomington, Indiana
• David Mathieu van Wijhe, Maastricht († 1974)
• Nicole Oomen
• Saskia Gjaltema († 1981)

• Albert Bastiaan Celosse (68)
• Anna Gaal (88), Amsterdam
• Albert Alma (68), Smallingerland
• Albertus Johannes (Ab) Sassen (43), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Cornelis Sassen (43), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Hendrik Verweij (69), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernhard Richard Hertema (69), Weener
• Albertus Johannes Sassen (43), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha May England (77), Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio
• Bertha Adelle Woolley (86), Houston (Harris), Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1973 » Adam Scott, American actor
• 1973 » Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer
• 1974 » Drew Shirley, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1974 » Lee Williams, Welsh model and actor
• 1974 » Marcus Brown, American basketball player
• 1975 » Aries Spears, American comedian and actor
• 1975 » Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player
• 1975 » Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player
• 1975 » Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player

• 1970 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
• 1976 » Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1976 » David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)

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. Jennifer

• 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 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
• February 21 » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
• June 26 » The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
• July 28 » Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
• September 15 » Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
• 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 April 3, 1974 was between 7.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.