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• Heddy Velten, enter
• Melissa Ann Gunderson († 1979)
• Marco Albert Wilhelm Verbeet, Berg en Dal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)

• Albert DELEU (72), Comines (Be)
• Anna Roelfs van der Veen (71), Drachten
• David Paul CIPKAR (22), Harvey Cook County Illinois U.S.A
• Anna van der Veen (71), Drachten, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Luijten (64), Gilze en Rijen
• Auguste Schmidt (82), Haarlem
• Adrianus Bernardus Henricus Biemans (63), Almelo, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Cornelis Anthonius Lambalk (67), Aalsmeer
• Aleida Maria van Halteren (58), Mount Gambier, Australië
• Adriaantje van der Vegt (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1972 » Takako Tokiwa, Japanese actress
• 1973 » Leigh Francis, English comedian and actor
• 1974 » Christian Tamminga, Dutch athlete
• 1975 » Johnny Galecki, American actor
• 1976 » Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1976 » Daniel Wagon, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 » Davian Clarke, Jamaican sprinter
• 1977 » Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
• 1977 » Meredith L. Patterson, American technologist, journalist, and author
• 1978 » Liljay, Taiwanese singer

• 1970 » Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)
• 1970 » Jacques Presser, Dutch historian, writer and poet (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (b. 1934)
• 1973 » Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright (b. 1911)
• 1974 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist and politician, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (b. 1949)
• 1983 » Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (b. 1897)
• 1983 » George Balanchine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (b. 1913)

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.
• March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• March 29 » NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
• September 25 » Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 1 » TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.

The temperature on April 30, 1974 was between 8.1 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.