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• Frits Willem jellema, Maassluis († 1989)
• Wolter Tapper, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1974)
• Andrew Grant De Young, Alameda County-California (USA) († 2011)
• Frits Willem Jellema, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1989)
• Constantijn Maria ter HAAR, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland

• Antonius Gerardus Dilweg (67), Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Denise Lines-Roberts
• Adrianus Franciscus Kleemans (55), Breda, NB, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Theodorus Benedictus Paashuis (61), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aafke Wierdsma (76)
• elisabeth beatrix (betje) theeuwen (65), heerlen
• Anna Barbara Vreuls (88), Heerlen
• Alfons SEGERS (84), Brasschaat,2930,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antonius Gerardus Dilweg (67), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Debora Adriana van Winden (85), Pijnacker

• 1971 » Doug Basham, American wrestler
• 1971 » Jamie Luner, American actress
• 1972 » Christian Campbell, Canadian-American actor, writer and photographer
• 1973 » Lutz Pfannenstiel, German footballer and manager
• 1973 » Mackenzie Astin, American actor
• 1975 » Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player († 2015)
• 1975 » Ricky Ortiz, American professional wrestler and football player
• 1976 » Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rap musician and producer
• 1977 » Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach
• 1977 » Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician († 2017)

• 1964 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)
• 1966 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (b. 1896)
• 1967 » John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1973 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
• 1974 » Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and politician, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907)

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 7 » Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
• June 30 » The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
• July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

The temperature on May 12, 1974 was between 4.2 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.