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• Karina Alexandra Zweekhorst, Eindhoven
• Roeland Johannes Martinus Edelbroek, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrienus Pieter Theodorus Maria van de Loo, Oirschot
• Joyce Kokenberg († 2022)
• Cornelis Pieter Hooft, Utrecht
• Joan Anthonise, Goes
• Ronald Dekker († 1984)

• Cornelis Hendrikus Mossel (78), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Antonie Pieter van Sligter (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Pistel (75), Amsterdam
• Adriana van Belzen (78), Arnemuiden
• Cornelis Antonie Pieter van Sligter (82), 's Gravenhage
• Jan Van Der Weide (62)
• Anne Adams Kuiper (80), Luinjeberd, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Wilhelmina Klaassen (58), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Johannes de Jong (77), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Charles Michel Joachim Napoléon, prince Murat (81)

• 1971 » Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner
• 1971 » Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 » Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer
• 1972 » Ruxandra Dragomir, Romanian tennis player
• 1973 » Alejandro Ávila, Mexican telenovela actor
• 1974 » Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring announcer and model
• 1974 » Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 » Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Tarō Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician
• 1975 » Thomas Kohnstamm, American author

• 1961 » Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
• 1965 » Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1895)
• 1968 » D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (b. 1942)
• 1973 » John Neihardt, American author and poet (b. 1881)
• 1980 » George Raft, American actor and dancer (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
• 1980 » Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (b. 1936)

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

1. Sandra
2. Bianca
3. Maria
4. Johanna
5. Miranda
6. Monique
7. Wendy
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Anna
11. Jennifer
12. Patricia
13. Karin
14. Nicole
15. Natasja
16. Anita

• 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 13.4 million citizens.
• March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• June 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
• September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
• December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

The temperature on November 24, 1973 was between 4.2 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.