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• Louisa Verkleij
• Marcel Johannes van der Leek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• gus vincent bowlby, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan († 2013)

• Benjamin van den Berg (84), South Dakota
• Albert Pietersz van der Meij (89), Leiden
• * Jacobus Willem Renes (70)
• Cornelis van Helbergen (93)
• Antoon Peter Joseph van den Bosch (90), Boxmeer, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelia Koppenol (73), 's-Gravenzande (Z-H), Nederland
• Antonetta Theodora de Vaan (91), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cora Williamson Singleton (92), Conway, Horry, South Carolina
• Cornelia Elisa de Bergh (89), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Cornelia Renssen (83)

• 1971 » Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1972 » Greg Berlanti, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Bartolo Colón, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1973 » Rodrigo, Argentinian singer-songwriter († 2000)
• 1973 » Shirish Kunder, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer and manager
• 1974 » Magnus Manske, German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki
• 1974 » Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1974 » Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor
• 1975 » Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian

• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 1965 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)

• 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.
• July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
• September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• October 10 » U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
• 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 May 24, 1973 was between 10.0 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.