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

• Antonius Hubertus Mennen (84), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Clarence Fred Hefti (75), Lyon Co., Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Aart BALEN, van (53), Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Stuiver (74), Noordwolde
• Adriana Maria Beurkens (92), Zierikzee (Schouwen-Duiveland), Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Adriana van Leeuwen (72), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Aalt van den Heuvel (62)
• Thomas Leenstra (84), Leeuwarden
• Bernardina Christina Maria Gelhever (83), Oldenzaal
• Anna Maria Berghuijs (75), Amsterdam, Noord-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. Natasja
14. Nicole
15. Patricia
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.
• May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
• July 10 » The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
• August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• December 15 » John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.

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.