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• Jacco Strooker († 1976)
• Gerrit Jan Rorije, Heerde († 2018)
• Nicole Jennie Ilse von Holte, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 1980)
• Torsten Schuller, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland

• Aletta Janna Cornelia Kool (78), Loosdrecht
• Antje Kluter (71), Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloysius Theodorus Mulder (72), Doetinchem
• Bartel Marinus van Strien (77), Zierikzee
• Alvin Higganbotham (91), Wichita (Sedgwick, Kansas, USA)
• Adrianus den Arend (65), Rotterdam
• "Mimi" Wilhelmina Maria Keultjes (76), Arnhem
• Anna Hendrika Hessels (84), Hilversum
• Arie Matthijs Scheepbouwer (74), Gouda
• Adrianus den Arend (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1974 » Derek Fisher, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Kirill Reznik, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 » Matt Morris, American baseball player
• 1974 » Raphaël Poirée, French biathlete
• 1974 » Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Mahesh Babu, Indian actor and producer
• 1975 » Mike Lamb, American baseball player
• 1975 » Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
• 1975 » Valentin Kovalenko, Uzbek football referee
• 1976 » Rhona Mitra, English actress and singer

• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953)
• 1979 » Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. David
6. Mark
7. Michael
8. Patrick
9. Richard
10. Dennis
11. Hendrik
12. Robert
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. Mariska

• 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 28 » In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
• 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.
• August 27 » The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
• September 14 » The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
• September 16 » Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
• October 1 » Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.

The temperature on August 9, 1975 was between 17.0 °C and 32.0 °C and averaged 23.9 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.