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• monique pauwels, helden-panningen
• Jolanda Gritter († 2010)
• Maaike Visch, Purmerend († 2008)
• Cornelus Petrus Bijwaard, Breezand, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Jolanda Gritter († 2010)
• Tanja van Lier, Honselersdijk, Nederland († 2019)

• Catharina van de Graaff (74)
• Aafje Jacobsdr Lakeman (79), Ursem, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Cornelis van Hooij (90), Oeffelt
• Adrianus Tromp (70), Egmond-Binnen
• Arlene van de Streek (44), .......
• Aukje Hendriks van der Mei (23)
• Anna Erna Gertrud Ottilie Josephine Luise Rohrbach (88), Amersfoort
• (73), Aurora County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Adeline Grace Phillips (73), White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
• Antonius Spierings (83), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1971 » Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island
• 1971 » Mark Connors, Australian rugby player
• 1971 » Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Dutch royal
• 1971 » Shaun Hart, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1971 » Stella Jongmans, Dutch athlete
• 1972 » Barry Hayles, English born Jamaican international footballer
• 1973 » Josh Homme, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1974 » Andrea Corr, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1974 » Eddie Lewis, American international soccer player
• 1974 » Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (b. 1903)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Robert
6. Marcel
7. Marco
8. Michael
9. Richard
10. Mark
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. Natasja
13. Patricia
14. Karin
15. Nicole
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 8 » Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
• April 2 » Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
• May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
• June 20 » Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
• July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
• November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

The temperature on May 17, 1973 was between 5.0 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.