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• Helena Jacoba Luiten, Ridderkerk
• Jeremy Dale Droge († 2012)
• Angelique Loermans, Nijmegen († 2015)
• Mark Antonio Sebastiaan Stoll, Alkmaar, prov. Noord Holland

• Arie van Haaften (71), Marion County, Iowa
• Anna Maria ter Veer (79), Hilversum
• Bernardina van Oorschot (70), Sprundel
• Cornelus Johannes van Deutekom (60), Deurne (Nld), Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Maria Lagrand (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred van Wyhe (59), Hills, Rock County, Minnesota
• (74), Amsterdam
• Adelia Adriana SEGERS (70), Lier,2500,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Alida Maria Lagrand (van Dijk) (76), Rotterdam
• Aletta Bruijnes (73)

• 1969 » Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete
• 1969 » Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, and activist
• 1971 » Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
• 1971 » Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player († 2017)
• 1972 » Neil Primrose, Scottish drummer
• 1974 » Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager
• 1975 » Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 » Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 » Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (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 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
• May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

The temperature on February 20, 1973 was between 5.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.