About the day » Sunday May 18, 1975Calender converter

• Hendrik Theodoor Benjamin Manders, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1975)
• Claudia Vermeulen, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1975)
• Dominic Linard, East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia († 1975)
• Marco Lemmers († 2021)

• Adrianus Franciscus Cornelius van de Put (66), Tilburg
• Albertus Bosgraaf (79), Sappemeer
• Catharina Maria Zonneveld (85), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Bosgraaf (79), Sappemeer
• Aaltje Wolthuis (75), Nieuw-Buinen, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Zonneveld(t) (85), Beverwijk
• Adrianus (Adriaan) Vermeer (75)
• Aaldrik Halmingh (14), Groningen
• Arthur Aloïse Vanduynslager (69), Waregem
• Arthur Jerome HERMSEN (29)

• 1973 » Aleksandr Olerski, Estonian footballer († 2011)
• 1973 » Donyell Marshall, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1975 » Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 » John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
• 1976 » Marko Tomasović, Croatian pianist and composer
• 1976 » Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1976 » Ron Mercer, American basketball player
• 1977 » Lee Hendrie, English footballer

• 1963 » Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)

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. Bart
16. Pieter

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. Jennifer
14. Nicole
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.
• January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• February 5 » Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
• April 2 » Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
• April 13 » An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
• April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
• September 4 » The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.

The temperature on May 18, 1975 was between 9.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.