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• Rene Vos († 1995)
• Pieter David Christiaan Kramer, Krommenie († 1996)
• Karin van Smirren, Rotterdam ( Hoogvliet)
• Esmeralda Nauta, Alkmaar († 2009)
• Johanna Bakkum, Heiloo
• Mark Roelof Roelfsema, Amsterdam

• Adriana Maria Kroon (77)
• Antonius Albertus Marie Pabst (56), Stockholm, Zweden
• Cornelis Jan Moermond (57), Utrecht
• Cornelia Ludovica JOOSEN (85), Ekeren,2180,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aukje Brouwer (78), Sint Annaparochie
• Constantinus Anthonius Cornelis Busch (66), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Bartholomeus Johannes van Hulten (66), Tegelen, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Helvoirt (60), Tilburg
• Elisabet Klara Hubert (70), Amsterdam
• Bertha J PITTENGER (86), Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States

• 1972 » Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1972 » Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1972 » Murray Goodwin, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1972 » Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Mos Def, American rapper
• 1974 » Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
• 1974 » Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner
• 1974 » Lisa Ortiz, American theatre and voice actress
• 1974 » Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
• 1974 » Rey Mysterio, American wrestler

• 1964 » Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1966 » Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)
• 1968 » Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)

• 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 10 » Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
• April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• October 31 » Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
• November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
• December 17 » Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.

The temperature on December 11, 1973 was between -2.3 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.