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• Aukje Wytske Alkema, De Lier
• Eric BEX, Genk (B) († 1994)
• Joshua Dijkema († 1996)
• Daniel Allen Sayer
• Pierre-Emmanuel Robert Antonin Cros, Paris, Paris, Frankijk († 2021)
• Antoine Berol Chin, Alkmaar († 2021)
• Gwendolyn Tengeler, Rotterdam († 1976)

• Adriana Jannetje Maria Robbemond (85)
• Catharina Dirkje Thiel (81), Leiden
• Adriana Dymphna Maria Schoone (72), Breda
• Adrianus Petrus Maria de Jong (64), Tilburg
• Charles Ellis Wilson (76)
• Catharina Elisabeth Plasmans (83), Roosendaal
• Andries Blaauw (83), Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Betsie Lopes Salzedo (65), Amsterdam (NL)
• Catharina Gezina Kiel (96)
• Adrianus Nieuwendaal (81), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1973 » Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
• 1973 » Charlotta Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1973 » Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
• 1975 » Keon Clark, American basketball player
• 1976 » Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1976 » Lukas Haas, American actor and musician
• 1977 » Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
• 1979 » Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
• 1979 » Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 » Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter

• 1968 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 » István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Wendy
5. Esther
6. Monique
7. Elisabeth
8. Miranda
9. Linda
10. Saskia
11. Jennifer
12. Bianca
13. Cindy
14. Judith
15. Tamara
16. Patricia

• 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 13.7 million citizens.
• March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
• March 9 » Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
• September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
• September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
• October 6 » Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.

The temperature on April 16, 1976 was between 4.9 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.