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• Marco BREDIUS, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Cornelis van de Beek, Hollandsche Rading († 1989)

• Bertha Kremer (75)
• Clarence Fred Hefti (75), Lyon Co., Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Beurkens (92)
• Camillus De Letter (82), Antwerpen
• Anna Maria Arens (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert De Vries, Hippolytushoef
• Arnoldus Willems (69), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cirille Misplon (82), Staden West Vlaanderen België
• Adriana Maria Beurkens (92), Zierikzee (Schouwen-Duiveland), Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Catharina Martina Bijsterbosch (41), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1971 » Bill Mueller, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1972 » Mia Hamm, American soccer player
• 1972 » Torquil Campbell, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1973 » Caroline Corr, Irish singer and drummer
• 1973 » Rico Blanco, Filipino singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1973 » Vance Wilson, American baseball player and manager
• 1974 » Mark Dolan, English comedian and television host
• 1975 » Justin Hawkins, English singer-songwriter
• 1975 » Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer

• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)

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

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

• 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.
• January 22 » The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• March 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
• June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• July 10 » The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• September 20 » Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
• December 24 » District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.

The temperature on March 17, 1973 was between 0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.