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• Diana van Neerven, Helmond († 2007)
• Ingrid van Haaren, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Geertje Kleine, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Christina Renkema, Carambai Brasil († 1976)
• Ewoud Jeroen Bakker, Amsterdam († 1983)

• Adriana Francisca Aben (76), Etten en Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anton - Antonius Holle (61)
• Anna Cornelia Hogervorst (72), Poeldijk
• Anna Cornelia Hogervorst (72), Delft
• Arend Verwoert (82)
• Adriaantje Messenmaker (80), Gorinchem, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• * Johannes Franciscus Josephus Dolman (64)
• Anna Maria van Kasteren (77), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries van der Hoek (86), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert de Ruiter (69), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• 1969 » Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
• 1969 » Shaun Micheel, American golfer
• 1971 » Stian Carstensen, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and composer
• 1972 » Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1973 » Uday Chopra, Bollywood actor and filmmaker
• 1974 » Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter and coach
• 1975 » Bradley Cooper, American actor and producer
• 1975 » Mike Grier, American ice hockey player and scout
• 1975 » Warrick Dunn, American football player
• 1976 » Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer

• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Tevfik Rüştü Aras, Turkish physician and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
• 1976 » John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
• 1978 » Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 1979 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)

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 23 » United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• April 1 » Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
• April 2 » Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
• 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.
• July 12 » A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
• 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.

The temperature on January 5, 1973 was between -0.5 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.