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• Joris Roeland Hoogelander, Elst,Overbetuwe († 2019)

• Antonius Cornelis Geers (82), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariaantje Slinger (79), Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Alida Maria Margaretha Lubbert (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augusta Johanna Maria Prinsen (89), Amsterdam, NL
• Bastiana Johanna Jacoba Lagendijk (87), Hoofddorp
• Anne Marie Herckens (78), Hasselt, België
• Agnes Tryon M. (74)
• Antonius Cornelius van de Sanden (91), Tilburg
• Carmen Pauline DELESTRAIN (89), Chili
• August H DEBOER (77), Alton, Sioux, Iowa, United States of America

• 1973 » Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1974 » Christian XXX, American pornographic star
• 1974 » Korey Stringer, American football player († 2001)
• 1974 » Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
• 1975 » Dmitri Ustritski, Estonian footballer
• 1975 » Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1975 » Gastón Mazzacane, Argentinian race car driver
• 1975 » Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1976 » Gonçalo Abecasis, Portuguese-American biochemist and academic
• 1976 » Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1972 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Avery Brundage, American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)
• 1980 » Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)

• 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 15 » The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
• March 22 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• April 17 » The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
• June 25 » Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
• 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.
• December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

The temperature on May 8, 1975 was between 4.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.