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• Shawn Milton Jannusch, Multnomah County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Martin Alexander van Nieuwenhoven, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Michael Scott Hill [Wk |||] († 1975)
• Jan Zwier Stoel, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1998)
• April Dawn Shields, Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Yfat Assuline († 1980)
• Raymond Dammers († 1989)

• Anna Maria Blommaert (90)
• Abraham Stikkelorum (47), Leiderdorp
• Archie B Cooper (57), Ft Worth, Tarrant, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van der Loo (77), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allan Glenvil POTTER * (56), Queensland, Australia
• Adriana Jacoba van Ginderen (68), Kruisland
• Antonius Jan Hendrik Mombarg (73), Oosterhout
• Anthonius van de Rosière (75), Laren (Rosa Spierhuis)
• Adriana van der Loo (77), Tilburg
• Antje Neeltje van der Oest (86), Alphen aan den Rijn

• 1974 » Malena Alterio, Spanish actress
• 1974 » Maxwell Atoms, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor
• 1975 » Alyaksandr Yermakovich, Belarusian footballer and manager
• 1975 » Casey FitzRandolph, American speedskater
• 1975 » Florin Șerban, Romanian director
• 1975 » Ito, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1975 » Jason Moran, American jazz pianist, composer and educator
• 1975 » Nicky Butt, English footballer and coach
• 1975 » Willem Korsten, Dutch footballer, left winger
• 1975 » Yuji Ide, Japanese race car driver

• 1965 » Gwynne Evans, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1968 » Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Sandro Penna, Italian poet and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Freda Utley, English scholar and author (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Lamar Williams, American bass player (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Giannis Skarimpas, Greek playwright and poet (b. 1893)
• 1984 » Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
• 1985 » James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)

• 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.
• March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
• March 10 » Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
• April 29 » Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
• July 15 » Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
• 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 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

The temperature on January 21, 1975 was between 2.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.