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• Henricus Johannes Pennings, Leiderdorp, ZUI, Nederland († 1975)
• Brian Keith Boneschans, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2008)
• Bianca Jellema († 2012)
• Bianca Jellema († 2012)
• Christine Ann Rutgers
• Michiel Jochem Boxhoorn, Den Helder († 1973)
• Katrien Wever, Amsterdam
• Nicolina Catharina Kieboom, Werkendam

• Auke Brouwer (76), -
• Albertha de Jong (74), Almelo
• Alexine Françoise Joséphine Marie Gerardine Nackom (77), Sint-Truiden, België
• Bertele Kromhout van der Meer (55), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jansen (86), Hilvarenbeek
• Aaltje Holtland (81)
• Alice VERSTRAETEN (85), Sint-Joost-Ten-Node,Bruxelles,Bruxelles,BELGIQUE
• Catharina Maria Johanna van Boxtel (58), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Emelie Aakerhus (89), Shawnee Mission, Johnson, Kansas, United States of America
• Aaltje Zwarteveen (65), Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 1970 » Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
• 1971 » Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
• 1971 » Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1972 » Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 » Christophe Dominici, French rugby player
• 1972 » Michael Diamond, Australian shooter
• 1973 » Nathan Long, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 » Allison Amend, American novelist and short story writer
• 1974 » Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor
• 1975 » Juan Minujín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

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.
• January 1 » Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
• April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
• April 28 » The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.

The temperature on May 20, 1973 was between 12.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.