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• Travis William Allen († 1995)
• NN (twins) Algera, Zwolle († 1973)
• David Rongen, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 2017)

• Anna Josephina CASTRO (81), Waltwilder, 3740, Bilzen, Limburg, België
• Antonius Marinus Josephus Horst van der (63), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• antonie aarts (73), zeilberg (gemeente deurne)
• Bertus Pelikaan (66), Delft
• Clarence Victor WATTS (78), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• David Miles Aderholdt (70)
• Clarence Sherman Fletcher (45), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• "Jeanne" Emma Charlotte Hortense de Maesschalk (78)
• Cornelis Albertus Franciscus Dirks (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Marinus Josephus van der Horst (63), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1959 » Aubrey McClendon, American businessman († 2016)
• 1960 » Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, activist and actress
• 1960 » Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
• 1960 » Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
• 1962 » Vanessa Lawrence, English geographer and civil servant
• 1963 » Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1971 » Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
• 1974 » David Mitchell, British comedian
• 1977 » Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
• 1983 » Tito Muñoz, American conductor and academic

• 1965 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
• 1966 » Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1970 » Preston Foster, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1974 » Carl Spaatz, American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (b. 1891)
• 1984 » Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (b. 1928)
• 1986 » Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (b. 1893)
• 1989 » Frank Bell, English linguist and academic (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Constance Stokes, Australian painter (b. 1906)

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. 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.
• January 22 » The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
• January 27 » The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
• 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.
• October 8 » Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
• October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
• November 16 » Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

The temperature on July 14, 1973 was between 11.2 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.