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• Ronald Blokland, Dordrecht († 2017)
• James William (Billy) STRAHN († 1980)
• Roy Asbreuk, Weerselo († 1975)
• Pieter Edwin (Peter) Engels, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1975)
• Pieter Edwin Engels, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1975)
• Jan Frederik Scheltema, Workum († 2006)

• Bobby Spivey (39)
• Bernardus ter Huurne (59), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annie GOEBEL (104), Granville,Iowa
• Aafje Doef (86)
• Alice Sharp (70)
• Alix Adrienne Albertine BOGAERT (69), Bambecque... Hauts de France
• Arnolda Maria Geijsen (70), Deventer
• Adriana Slager (82), St. Annaland
• Bernadette Anna Maria Cornelia KUIJPERS (81), St.-Jozefsziekenhuis,Maaseik,Limburg,Belgie
• Arie van Veelen (77), Hoogvliet,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• 1973 » Dan Harmon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1974 » Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
• 1974 » Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch golfer
• 1975 » Danica McKellar, American actress, writer, and mathematician
• 1975 » Jason Marsden, American actor
• 1975 » Thomas Bangalter, French DJ, musician (Daft Punk), and producer
• 1976 » Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
• 1976 » Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor and producer
• 1977 » A. J. Burnett, American baseball player
• 1977 » Lee Bowyer, English footballer and coach

• 1969 » Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 » Tzavalas Karousos, Greek-French actor (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Gladys Aylward, English missionary and humanitarian (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1975 » James McCormack, American general (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
• 1977 » William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 » George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b. 1910)

• 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 15 » The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
• June 20 » The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
• 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 31 » The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
• August 11 » East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
• September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.

The temperature on January 3, 1975 was between -0.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.