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• Menno Valko Eije Hoek († 1998)
• Karen van Ouwendorp
• Karalyn Mellema, Lima, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2002)

• Chester Michael (79), Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
• Antoon (Antonius Petrus Hubertus) Thijssen (65), La Paz
• Albert Jan Segers (63), Aartselaar
• Antoine "Guillaume" François Maurice Ghislain du Parc Locmaria (73), Etterbeek, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Anna Catharina Theunissen (83), Roermond
• August Emile Richard (Guus) Meijer (48), Den Bosch, Nederland
• Alphonse Jean Joseph DELMOTTE (91), Saint-Omer,62500,Pas-De-Calais,Hauts-De-France,FRANCE
• Barbara Lou Perkins Perkins (36), Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
• Aagtje de Vries (67)
• Cornelia Happe (83), Zaandam

• 1971 » Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1974 » Alan Morrison, British poet
• 1975 » Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 » M.I.A., English rapper and producer
• 1975 » Torii Hunter, American baseball player
• 1976 » Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
• 1976 » Go Soo-hee, South Korean actress
• 1977 » Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author
• 1978 » Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer

• 1966 » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (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. 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.
• April 27 » Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• June 29 » Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
• September 12 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
• October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
• 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 July 18, 1974 was between 7.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.