** Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist

** Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch inventor ( d. 2009 )

** Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist

** Johan Ferrier, Suriname President ( d. 2010 )

** Carl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete

** Johan Laidoner, seminal figure of Estonian history between the World Wars ( d. 1953 )

** Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman ( b. 1635 )

** Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer ( b. 1864 )

** Johan Bara, painter and engraver ( b. c. 1581 )

** Johan de Witt, Dutch politician ( b. 1625 )

** Johannes Bureus or Johan Bure, a Swedish 17th century polymath.

** Johan Amberg, composer ( b. 1846 )

** Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna ( acting 1787-1789 )

** Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet

** Johan Amberg, composer ( d. 1928 )

** Johan August Sandels, acting ( 1815 )

** Carl Johan af Nordin, acting ( 1828-1830 )

** Anders Johan Lexell and Christian Mayer in Saint Petersburg ; with other members of Russian Academy of Sciences at eight other locations in the Russian Empire

** Johan Rudolf Thorbecke

** Johan Alm – Finnish painter and field sergeant ( born 1728 )

** Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johan M. Arnell

** Royal Order, signed ' El Rey ', commanding Don Balthasar Coymans, Don Juan Barrosa & Don Nicolas Porzio to assemble ten Capuchin monks ( Franciscan friars ) from either Cadiz or Amsterdam for the purpose of sailing to the coast of Africa to buy slaves, to convert them to Christianity and sell them in the West Indies, 25 March 1685 Balthasar & Johan Coymans.

** Lisa Gasteen ; Johan Botha ; Falk Struckmann ; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Bertrand de Billy

** Johan Emil Aro, Finnish entomologist

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

** Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player

** Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-born actress

** Louis van Gaal, Dutch football player and manager

** Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982

** Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister ( d. 2010 )

** Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands ( d. 2002 )

** Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer

** Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect ( b. 1886 )

** Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

** A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

** Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the paintings he had sold to Hermann Göring ( Koch ) are later found to be his fakes.

** Auguste van Pels, German-Dutch mother of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank ( d. 1945 )

** Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist

** Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist ( b. 1891 )

** Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer

** Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ

** Een beetje by Teddy Scholten ( music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands.

** Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

** Francis van Aarssens ( d. 1641 )

** Gijs van Lennep wins the 24 hours of Le Mans together with Helmut Marko.

** Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player