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• Bartholomeus Henricus van Gemert, Vught (N.Br) († 1975)
• Geert Baecke († 1977)
• Petra Marianne van den Boogaard, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Bas Graumans, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 2018)
• Lubbegina Hendrina Huizing († 2015)
• Marieke Leurs, Amsterdam
• Nucia VITALE, Roeselare († 2006)
• Petra van der Sluijs, Aardenburg
• Yvonne GROOTENBOER, Ridderkerk († 2020)

• Anna Catharina Richter (89), Roermond
• Bartha Elisabeth Schut (66)
• Anna De Laat (85), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Alblas (85), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allegonda Elisabeth Eeuwkes Boomsma (73), Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Agatha Adriana Mooij (56), Wanbach, Limburg, Nederland
• Annigje de Groot (86), Velp
• Adrianus Ludovicus Keij (77), Roosendaal
• Allegonda Elisabeth Boomsma (73), Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradel, Frielsnad
• Andreas Bremer (66), Amsterdam

• 1970 » Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor († 2019)
• 1970 » Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1972 » Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 » Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1975 » Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1976 » Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
• 1978 » Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress

• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

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 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.
• March 29 » Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
• May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• September 15 » Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
• November 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The temperature on May 22, 1974 was between 9.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.