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• Gerto Gerhardus Weerink, Geesteren († 1995)
• Kelly Ann Scholte-Paulauskas († 2013)
• Rob Robert Christian Vries De, Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands († 2001)
• Darrell Ray Dick [Wk MmFdgqggSweetBu], Pulaski County, Kentucky († 1973)
• Anna Martina Suzanna van Baerle, Barneveld
• Mario Laureyn, Soest (Dl)

• Darrell Ray Dick [Wk MmFdgqggSweetBu] (0), Pulaski County, Kentucky
• David Martinus Knibbe (81), Badhoevedorp
• Arie van der Lee (75), Zennewijnen, ge.nld
• Annigje Schram (76), Gaasterland
• Arthur Thomas Snelling (78), Colchester, Essex, England
• Arend Jan Leurink (66), Deventer (Ov Nederland
• Carl Kenneth Huntsman (52), Connersville, Fayette, Indiana, United States
• Cor Clevis (54), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernardus Henricus IJsveld (77)
• Antje Kuijper (60), Zaandam

• 1965 » Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic
• 1966 » Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1966 » Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress
• 1967 » A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist
• 1968 » John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Norman Reedus, American actor and model
• 1970 » Julie Chen, American television journalist, presenter, and producer
• 1970 » Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager
• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player
• 1976 » Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player

• 1966 » Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Robert
6. Marcel
7. Marco
8. Michael
9. Mark
10. Richard
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.
• April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
• 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 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
• June 24 » The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
• November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
• November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

The temperature on January 6, 1973 was between 1.1 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.