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• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1973)

• Antje Geertruida Verbeek (81), Arnhem
• Cornelis Hamers (82), Tilburg
• Alma Wilhelmine Wolff (82), Golden Valley
• Eduardus Frederikus (Ekky) Hoyng (58), Groenlo, Gld, Nederland
• Cornelis Hamers (82), Tilburg
• Cornelia Johanna Maria de Kort (67), Maastricht
• Bessie Warrior (83), Ventura, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria van Engelen (81), Vught
• Charlotte Mary Harridge (86), Kerang, Victoria, Australia
• Antonius Bernardus KELDER (78), den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1971 » Guillaume Depardieu, French actor († 2008)
• 1971 » Victor Kraatz, German-Canadian figure skater
• 1972 » Tim Peake, British astronaut
• 1973 » Brett Tomko, American baseball player
• 1973 » Carole Montillet, French skier
• 1973 » Christian O'Connell, British radio DJ and presenter
• 1973 » Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence
• 1973 » Marco Delvecchio, Italian footballer
• 1975 » Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 » Ronde Barber, American football player and sportscaster

• 1965 » Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1968 » Edwin Baker, Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Abeid Karume, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
• 1972 » Joe Gallo, American gangster (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Kit Lambert, English record producer and manager (b. 1935)
• 1981 » Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver and journalist (b. 1948)
• 1984 » Frank Church, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1924)

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.
• January 1 » Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
• April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
• May 5 » Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59​⁄₅, an as-yet unbeaten record.
• May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• June 20 » Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
• November 14 » In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

The temperature on April 7, 1973 was between 0.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.