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• Marieke Koenhorst, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Chandra Louise Schreinemachers, Turnhout, Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Corey Dale Wingate, Sioux City, Woodbury Co., IA († 2011)

• Cornelis Floor (69), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Cornelis Floor (69)
• Adriaan Marijnissen (85), Alphen en Riel
• Carolus Kerkhof (57), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus van de Kerkhof (57), Eindhoven
• Barend Rob (83)
• Anna Maria ten Katen (84), Baarn
• Anna Nijenhuis * (91)
• Charles Adam Scherer (77), Scott City, Scott, Missouri, United States
• Aleida Jansje Broeze (48), Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1971 » Michaela Watkins, American actor and comedian
• 1972 » Marcus Jensen, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Miranda Hart, English actress
• 1973 » Falk Balzer, German hurdler
• 1973 » Pat Burke, Irish basketball player
• 1973 » Saulius Štombergas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1973 » Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-Canadian footballer
• 1974 » Billy Koch, American baseball player
• 1975 » Ben Kay, English rugby player
• 1975 » Justin Furstenfeld, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1963 » Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
• 1964 » William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1970 » Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
• 1971 » Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
• 1971 » Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 1974 » Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)

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. Natasja
13. Patricia
14. Karin
15. Nicole
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.
• 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 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
• August 14 » The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
• November 3 » Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
• December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

The temperature on December 14, 1973 was between -0.2 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.