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• Johanna M Bennett, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa († 2022)
• Bram Martens, Twello,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland

• Catharina Martina Christina Wagener (78), Oosterhout
• Annie Mae Manderson (0), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
• Agnes Catherine Kiernan (76), St. Ignatius, Montana, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Otis Phillips (84)
• Albertus Pietersz Kemp (72), Abcoude
• Christiaan Jacob Belser (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Rijnbeek (83), Utrecht
• Axie Lavina Johnson (86), Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States
• Cora van den Bosch (87), Beaver, Grundy County, Iowa
• Albertus Bertus Vork (85), Langeraar

• 1972 » Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1974 » Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 » Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 » Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber († 2017)
• 1977 » Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 » Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer

• 1963 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)

• 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.
• June 1 » The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
• June 25 » Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
• July 30 » Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• September 27 » The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.
• October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
• December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.

The temperature on October 4, 1975 was between 6.9 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.