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• Jennigje Janneke Smit († 1976)
• Jennigje Janneke SMIT, Vroomshoop, Overijssel, Nederland († 1976)
• Stefan Heyen († 1974)
• Christina Beth Menninga, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Louwe Wakker, Urk († 2020)
• Jeniffer Michelle Sanders († 2016)
• Jennigje Janneke Smit († 1976)

• Aloysius George SEILER (68), Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Berend van het Spijker (44), Diepenveen
• Catharina Smith (70), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Bartus van Leijenhorst
• Adriaan Maaten (66), Leiden
• Anna Cornelia Dirven (80), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ada Cora McLACHLAN (86), Glen Huntly, Victoria, Australia
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Brabander (64), Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aletha Adam Wylie (91), Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas
• Bertha Pater (78), de Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1971 » Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1971 » Guthrie Govan, English guitarist and educator
• 1972 » Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby union player and coach
• 1972 » Kevin Ollie, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 » Matt Slocum, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1973 » Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch pianist and composer
• 1974 » Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1974 » Jay Pandolfo, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1974 » Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor and visual effects designer
• 1974 » Tomáš Janků, Czech high jumper

• 1965 » Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
• 1972 » Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Amy Vanderbilt, American author (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 1978 » Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
• 1978 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
• 1979 » Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, 2nd President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Jack Swigert, American pilot, astronaut, and politician (b. 1931)

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.
• 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.
• April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
• May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil 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.
• November 8 » The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
• November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

The temperature on December 27, 1973 was between 5.4 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.