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• Charlene Duffy, Fort Augustus, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Cornelius Maria de Bie, Oirschot
• Ank Tromp, Castricum († 2003)

• Arie Biesheuvel (62), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Macdaniël (83), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Diena HONCOOP (99), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Schraepen (58)
• Antonij Schoneveld (80), Gorssel, Harfsen
• Carl Samuel Kauffman (60), Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Bessie E Williams (79), Indian River County, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Albert, Jan, Gerrit Krommendam (84), Azelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Rijsdijk (84)
• Alice Claerboudt (69), Tielt, West-Vlaanderen (BE)

• 1971 » David Gauke, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 » Marc Ellis, New Zealand rugby player and television host
• 1971 » Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist, author, and academic
• 1972 » Stanislav Varga, Slovak footballer and manager
• 1972 » Terry Balsamo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1973 » Jim Fairchild, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 » Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
• 1974 » Fredrik Modin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 » Kevyn Adams, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1974 » Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower

• 1963 » Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Jean Giono, French author and poet (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)
• 1982 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

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.
• April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
• July 28 » Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
• July 31 » A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
• August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
• September 11 » JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.
• October 20 » The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

The temperature on October 8, 1973 was between 12.5 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.