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• Michelle Patricia Ann Biesboer, Mount Beauty,,Australia
• Sofie van den Bergh, Kapellen, Antwerpen, België († 1975)
• Hubertus van HEEL, Rossum, Gelderland, Nederland

• Bertha Tilburgs (96), Valkenswaard
• Annegien Blaak (79)
• Antje KALSBEEK (75), Canada
• Antje Kalsbeek (75)
• Antje Freerks Kalsbeek (75), Canada
• Catharina Johanna Oostdam (73), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Metz (68), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bijnen (54), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arien Pater (67), Amersfoort
• Christiaan Albrecht Ebersohn (73), Bloemfontein, South Africa

• 1973 » Christian Finnegan, American comedian and actor
• 1973 » Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1974 » Hugo Ibarra, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1975 » John Butler, American-Australian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 » Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1976 » Clarence Seedorf, Dutch-Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1976 » David Gilliland, American race car driver
• 1976 » David Oyelowo, English actor
• 1976 » Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator
• 1976 » Yuka Yoshida, Japanese tennis player

• 1962 » Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)
• 1965 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. David
7. Michael
8. Patrick
9. Richard
10. Dennis
11. Robert
12. Hendrik
13. Paul
14. Martijn
15. Bart
16. Willem

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. Jennifer
14. Nicole
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.
• April 2 » Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
• April 30 » Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
• June 24 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
• June 25 » Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
• November 11 » Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
• November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.

The temperature on April 1, 1975 was between 1.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.