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• Gary Dennis Bakker, Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa († 1973)
• Nanci Lynne Workman, Verenigde Statn († 2010)
• Lucia Coriene van de Weide

• Antonius Sanders (85), Uden
• Chester E Kuiper (60), Holland Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius J.M. Wijdeveld (60), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Clara Elisabeth van Regteren Altena (74), Bloemendaal,Gemeente Bloemendaal,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aaltien Withaar (73), Den Helder
• Catharina Augustina Decauter (84), Sint-Truiden, België
• Cornelia Dam (80), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Lucas Biemans (79), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Wilhelmusl van Riel (65), Den Haag
• Catherine Craig Peppler (92), Dannevirke,New Zealand

• 1970 » Danny Michel, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan model and actress
• 1973 » Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
• 1974 » Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
• 1974 » Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 » Fred Coleman, American football player and coach
• 1975 » Preity Zinta, Indian actress, producer, and television host
• 1976 » Buddy Rice, American race car driver
• 1976 » Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager

• 1961 » Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Reginald Baker, English-Australian film producer (b. 1896)

• 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.
• July 31 » A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
• August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• August 23 » A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
• November 4 » The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
• November 8 » The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.

The temperature on January 31, 1973 was between 0.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.