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• Trisha Wendy Tymstra, Sarnia (Ontario)
• Elisabeth Mechelina Heessels, Sint Michielsgestel
• Marilou Boeldak, Curaçao

• Aldegonda Hubertina Kuipers (82), Venlo
• Bernardus Arnoldus Dijkman (63), Apeldoorn (Liduïnaziekenhuis)
• Albert Brinkman (75)
• Aaltje Bakker (57)
• Antonia Blanken (59), Rotterdam
• Aline Kerremans (45), Antwerpen, Antwerpen (B)
• Anna Folinea (80), Arta Terme, 33022, Italia
• Arnold Jozef Vannitsen (72), Wintershoven, België
• Adele L Meinn (85), Portland, OR
• Adolph Constantinus Peet (71), Den Haag

• 1972 » Alexei Zhitnik, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Dean Roland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Jun Lana, Filipino director, producer, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Mario Lopez, American actor, television personality, and producer
• 1973 » Scott Morriss, English bass player and songwriter
• 1973 » Zach Thornton, American soccer player and coach
• 1974 » Asi Cohen, Israeli actor and screenwriter
• 1974 » Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver and actor
• 1974 » Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 » Lucy Powell, English politician

• 1970 » Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, 105th Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
• 1971 » John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Werner Heyking, Danish actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 1976 » Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 » Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1978 » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)

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. Natasja
13. Karin
14. Patricia
15. Saskia
16. Nicole

• 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.
• March 17 » The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
• March 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
• 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".
• September 11 » A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
• October 17 » OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
• 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 October 10, 1973 was between 7.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.