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• Guido Martijn de Kok, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Alex de Beurs
• Xiao-Qing Cheng, Zhejiang († 2008)

• Geertruida Arends (78), Sellingerbeetse
• Arie Been (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Kras (67)
• Cora Adele van der Zaiemsz (82), The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Egbert Jan van der Weide (52), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoon Emans (83), 's-Hertogenbosch
• DANIEL BEISHUIZEN (80), HOOGEZAND, Groningen, Nederland
• Gepke Jelles BEKKEMA (43), Drachten (Smallingerland) Friesland Netherlands
• A MONSTER (51)
• Arnolda Maria Johanna Staps (90), Diessen

• 1973 » Kate Beckinsale, English actress
• 1973 » Mariano Raffo, Argentinian director and producer
• 1974 » Dean Sturridge, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1974 » Iron & Wine, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 » Kees Meeuws, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1975 » Elizabeth Truss, English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 1975 » Ingo Schultz, German sprinter
• 1975 » Joe Smith, American basketball player
• 1976 » Elena Kustarova, Russian ice dancer and coach
• 1977 » Joaquín Benoit, Dominican baseball player

• 1960 » Cedric Gibbons, British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
• 1984 » Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
• 1984 » George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)
• 1986 » W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
• 1988 » Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
• 1992 » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)

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 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.
• February 9 » The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• April 25 » As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
• May 10 » Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
• May 27 » Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
• October 10 » Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

The temperature on July 26, 1975 was between 9.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.