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• Gwen Meijer, Harlingen († 1980)

• Antonius van de Wijngaard (60), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Ludwick Hopp (99), Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States of America
• Adriana Maria van den Corput (61), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert John Eisenmenger (85), Sherburn, Martin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia KOOTE (70)
• Albert Kalsbeek (86)
• Allan Oswald Large (52)
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Hubertus Claessens (89), Maastricht
• Christine Wirtz (74), Heerlerheide, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Clyde Edwards (73)

• 1972 » Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Natasha Henstridge, Canadian model and actress
• 1974 » Tomasz Suwary, Polish footballer
• 1975 » Bertrand Berry, American football player and radio host
• 1975 » Brendan Morrison, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 » Kara Wolters, American basketball player
• 1975 » Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1976 » Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1977 » Anthony Rocca, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 » Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (b. 1942)
• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (b. 1954)

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 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
• June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• September 14 » The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
• 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.
• October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
• October 30 » Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

The temperature on August 15, 1975 was between 15.7 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.