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• Albert Arend Polling († 1980)
• Annet Wind
• Catherine NOUWEN († 2000)
• Lisa Joy Formsma, Tippah, Verenigde Staten († 2023)
• Albert Polling, Borger († 1980)
• Torrey Rhett Jordan, Conway, Horry County, South Carolina († 2001)

• Albertje Berghout (92)
• Antonia Cornelia Maria Kafoe (47), Tilburg, NL
• Bernard Marmaduke FITZALAN-HOWARD (66)
• Betty LATHEY (52), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Bernardus de Jong (47), Sint-Willebrord (B), België
• Anthonius Petrus van Kessel (68), Aalsmeer
• Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and Surrey (66)
• Albrecht Jules Joseph Ghislenus Symphoriaan Rodenbach (75), Kortrijk, 8500, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• * Anna van Mens (86)
• Adam Weits (63), Ter-Apel, Groningen, Nederland

• 1973 » Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
• 1974 » Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
• 1974 » Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 » Fred Coleman, American football player and coach
• 1975 » Preity Zinta, Indian actress, producer, and television host
• 1976 » Buddy Rice, American race car driver
• 1976 » Paul Scheer, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1977 » Kerry Washington, American actress
• 1977 » Suchitra Singh, Indian cricketer

• 1966 » Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Reginald Baker, English-Australian film producer (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)

• 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.
• April 17 » The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
• April 28 » General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
• May 30 » European Space Agency is established.
• June 25 » Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
• October 16 » Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.
• November 10 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

The temperature on January 31, 1975 was between 7.0 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.