About the day » Saturday September 28, 1974Calender converter

• CHANTAL MOSTERD, GORINCHEM († 2001)
• Isabelle Verniest
• Linde HOUBRACKEN, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Sergei Pavlovich Slizen († 1997)
• Hendrik Martijn de Ronde, Vreeland, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)

• Antje Hieselaar (52), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Meertens (54), Stadskanaal (NL)
• C Van Turingen
• Coenraad Pieter Duister (58), Andel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje WETERINGE (69), Zwolle, Netherlands
• Effie Mary Louise (Efua Mbatsia) Boham (82), Cape Coast
• Catharina Steinmetz (75), Föhren, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Antonius Petrus Fleuren (95), Gennep Huize Norbertus
• Dirkje Lems (85), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Kerkhof (73), Ellecom, Nederland

• 1972 » Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
• 1973 » Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 » Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1974 » Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
• 1974 » Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1975 » Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic († 2013)
• 1975 » Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer
• 1975 » Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
• 1976 » Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician

• 1962 » Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
• 1966 » André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1970 » John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 » John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)

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 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
• March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• April 8 » At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• October 8 » Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• 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 September 28, 1974 was between 4.5 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.