About the day » Thursday May 1, 1975Calender converter

• Jurgen TUERLINCKX, Diest Vlaams Brabant († 2000)
• Mike Welling, Utrecht († 1993)
• levenloos geboren zoontje († 1975)
• Louise Lilian Maria Strick van Linschoten, Assen,Gemeente Assen,Drenthe,Netherlands († 1976)

• Alma H. Bartz (89), Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
• Anna Grietje Pietersd van Bezooijen (85)
• Barend Nicolaas BASTMEYER (35), IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barendina Francina Hendrina van Slooten (62), Harderwijk
• Daniel D Dieleman (90), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Brecht (Bregje) Schaap (60), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• David M. Beam (88)
• Cornelia van der Nol (89)
• Darrell Stanbrough (57)
• Antonia VAN DER KLEIJN (86), Dinteloord

• 1973 » Curtis Martin, American football player
• 1973 » Mike Jesse, German footballer
• 1973 » Oliver Neuville, German footballer
• 1973 » Peter Baah, English footballer and manager
• 1975 » Alexey Smertin, Russian international footballer
• 1975 » Austin Croshere, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1975 » Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer († 2003)
• 1975 » Nina Hossain, English journalist
• 1976 » Patricia Stokkers, Dutch swimmer
• 1977 » Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer and politician

• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Yi Un, Korean prince (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (b. 1939)
• 1976 » T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1982 » William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Jüri Lossmann, Estonian-Swedish runner (b. 1891)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. David
6. Mark
7. Michael
8. Patrick
9. Richard
10. Dennis
11. Robert
12. Hendrik
13. Paul
14. Martijn
15. Pieter
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Johanna
5. Wendy
6. Bianca
7. Linda
8. Cindy
9. Esther
10. Marieke
11. Judith
12. Patricia
13. Nicole
14. Jennifer
15. Miranda
16. Yvonne

• 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 13.6 million citizens.
• February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• July 17 » Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
• September 5 » Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• October 14 » An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
• November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.
• December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.

The temperature on May 1, 1975 was between 4.3 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.