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• Jacobus Pieter Hendrikus Hofland, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2008)
• Petra Cents
• Jason Clay Harlan, Montana († 1982)
• Mike Gerardus Hermanus Beene, Hengelo(O) († 2011)
• Fiony Apon, Utrecht († 2002)
• Bartje Graat, Reusel, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1973)

• Dirk Rous (72), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Camilla Metlitskaya (66), Palma de Mallorca
• Clasina Wilhelmina Lit (74), Utrecht
• Bastiaan Ladage (60), Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina Bemelmanns (70), Velsen, Nederland
• Cornelis Josef Hartvelt (49), Ter Aar
• Diederik Koiter (83), Enschede
• Bas Romijn (6)
• Cornelis Belterman (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Betterman (64), Tilburg

• 1970 » Doug Christie, American basketball player
• 1970 » Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor
• 1970 » Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer & all time top scorer for Chinese national team
• 1971 » Dan Chiasson, American poet and critic
• 1971 » Jason Lee, English footballer and manager
• 1972 » Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
• 1973 » Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
• 1973 » Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner
• 1975 » Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
• 1975 » Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1968 » Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1970 » Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
• 1976 » Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1976 » Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
• 1977 » James Jones, American novelist (b. 1921)
• 1978 » Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)

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. Saskia
14. Patricia
15. Karin
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 22 » In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
• January 23 » United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
• July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
• September 28 » The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
• December 6 » The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)

The temperature on May 9, 1973 was between 7.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.