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• Manon Romijn, Leiderdorp
• Ivo Koelink († 2006)
• Foka Hedzers Tiemersma, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2011)
• Marijke Korse, Hoogkarspel
• Kristie Ann KEATING († 2020)
• Rodney Schrier, Iowa († 2006)
• Ronald Smit, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1993)

• Bauke Wouters Pietersma (93)
• Arnoldus Coers (74), Apeldoorn
• Bauke Pietersma (93)
• Alice DE SCHAMPHELEIRE (70), Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke,9767,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antonie Cassa (62), Rotterdam
• Alfred Hertrampf (77)
• Alberta Margaretha (Bertha) Albertha Fleer (85), Zwolle
• Ana Truppel (66), Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Alberta Bertha Margaretha Fleer (85), Zwolle
• Anna van Reewijk (56), Wateringen

• 1971 » Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
• 1972 » Conchita Martínez, Spanish-American tennis player
• 1972 » Tracy K. Smith, American poet and educator
• 1973 » Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
• 1973 » Charlotta Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1973 » Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
• 1975 » Keon Clark, American basketball player
• 1976 » Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1976 » Lukas Haas, American actor and musician
• 1977 » Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer

• 1968 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 » István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)

• 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 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• 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.
• September 8 » Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
• 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.
• November 7 » In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
• November 11 » Independence of Angola.

The temperature on April 16, 1975 was between 5.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.