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• Nicole Krijger, Utrecht († 2010)
• Wilfred van de Kerkhof, Best,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)

• Albert van der Haar (71), Gramsbergen
• Berend Stelpstra (51), London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
• Clasina Catharina Cornelia Ran (77), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Anna Maria Staring (74), Zevenaar
• Adriana Johanna Andrea van Strijp (78), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Berend Heeres (80), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Wynand Olivier (47), Orange Free State (SA)
• Augustinus Gustavus Lauwers (67), Schaarbeek
• Anna Bouwes Strikwerda (52), Eritrea
• Arend Wilkens (69), Winde (Eelde), Drenthe, Nederland

• 1973 » Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
• 1973 » Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1973 » Yorgos Lanthimos, Greek film video, and theatre director, producer and screenwriter
• 1974 » Danny Wuerffel, American football player
• 1974 » Denise van Outen, English actress, singer, and television host
• 1974 » Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter
• 1975 » André 3000, American rapper
• 1975 » Jamie Oliver, English chef and author
• 1975 » Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer

• 1963 » Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
• 1964 » Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
• 1967 » Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician (b. 1889)
• 1967 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (b. 1926)
• 1971 » Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
• 1971 » Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1984 » Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)

• 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 5 » Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
• April 25 » Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
• June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
• August 9 » As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• September 11 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.

The temperature on May 27, 1974 was between 5.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.