About the day » Friday August 8, 1975Calender converter

• Shane A Carlson, Tracy, Lyon Co., Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Benjamin John ROOTES, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia († 2006)
• nn levenloos zoon van Sloten, Kampen († 1975)

• August Maeckelberghe (70), Mount Clemens Detroit Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Washington Perdue (96), Simpson Co., KY
• Aaltje Naber (82)
• Anna Kuhl (65), Siedlung Wesuwermoor, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriana Francooij (92), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Arnold Peter Albert WELLES (76), Venlo
• André DUVIEUSART (76), Etterbeek, 21005, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Annie (Anna) Steenstra (82), Grand Rapids Kent,MI
• Adriana Petronella van den Beukel (46), Monster
• Alida Huberta Petronella van Biezen (87), Leusden

• 1973 » Gert Olesk, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Scott Stapp, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1973 » Shane Lee, Australian cricketer and guitarist
• 1974 » Andy Priaulx, Guernseyan racing driver
• 1974 » Brian Harvey, English singer-songwriter
• 1974 » Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-American mathematician and academic
• 1974 » Scott D'Amore, Canadian wrestler and manager
• 1975 » Mick Moss, English singer-songwriter
• 1976 » Drew Lachey, American singer and actor
• 1976 » JC Chasez, American singer and dancer

• 1969 » Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1882)
• 1975 » Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1979 » Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (b. 1910)
• 1980 » Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1982 » Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)

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. 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.
• January 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
• April 25 » As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
• May 30 » European Space Agency is established.
• 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.
• October 16 » The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
• December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

The temperature on August 8, 1975 was between 18.9 °C and 32.9 °C and averaged 26.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.