About the day » Tuesday April 8, 1975Calender converter

• Steven Lee Ritten, Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Brian Johnny Price, San Mateo, California, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Mirjam Stuip († 2024)
• Richard Wessels, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)
• Vital Guillaume Valentin Swennen, Maaseik, Provincie Limburg, België († 1984)
• Boy MOYLAN, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1975)
• Pim van Maaren, Bergen op Zoom († 1975)

• Anna Christina Luijkx (74), Roosendaal
• Catharina Maria Petronella Staps (73), Eindhoven
• Alfons Slachmuylders (79), Reet
• Beulah Cornelia Webb Lanier [sRCs] (64), McComb, Pike County, Mississipp
• Azzie Roena Cook (88), Mississippi
• Alfred Fredrick Gouin (82), Canada
• Allegonda Gruythuysen (52), Eersel
• Anna Cornelia Corten (84), Gittecoven
• Annabelle FEITH (77)
• Cornelia Ros (78), Katwijk

• 1973 » Emma Caulfield, American actress
• 1973 » Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
• 1974 » Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American author and educator
• 1974 » Toutai Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1975 » Anouk, Dutch singer
• 1975 » Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
• 1975 » Funda Arar, Turkish singer
• 1975 » Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)

• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)

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

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.
• January 5 » The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
• February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• April 2 » Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
• April 13 » An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
• June 25 » Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
• October 14 » An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.

The temperature on April 8, 1975 was between 2.2 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.