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• Gerrit Jan Rorije, Heerde († 2018)
• Yvonne Sebradina Willemse, "naamswijziging", voorheen Naaktgeboren, Moerdijk
• Jacco Strooker († 1976)
• Nicole Jennie Ilse von Holte, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 1980)

• Arie Matthijs Scheepsbouwer (74), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Josephus Kuipers (91)
• Arend Stoffer (82), Deventer
• Adrianus Antonius Heijkoop (66), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Niederlande
• Arie de Bruin (67), Sliedrecht
• Bartel Marinus van Strien (77), Zierikzee
• Adrianus den Arend (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Justus Sontag (78), Maple Valley, King, Washington, United States of America
• Adriana Vuijk (86)
• Arie Nicolaas Middelburg (76)

• 1974 » Derek Fisher, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Kirill Reznik, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 » Matt Morris, American baseball player
• 1974 » Raphaël Poirée, French biathlete
• 1974 » Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Mahesh Babu, Indian actor and producer
• 1975 » Mike Lamb, American baseball player
• 1975 » Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
• 1975 » Valentin Kovalenko, Uzbek football referee
• 1976 » Rhona Mitra, English actress and singer

• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953)
• 1979 » Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)

• 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.
• February 9 » The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• April 29 » Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
• June 4 » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
• July 30 » Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
• September 22 » Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

The temperature on August 9, 1975 was between 17.0 °C and 32.0 °C and averaged 23.9 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.