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• Chantal Melanie van DUYNE, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ate Sietses Stoffelsma, Rien, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2017)
• Marjolein Antonietta Deen, Roelofarendsveen († 2022)
• Remco Andries van Geelen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Angus A. Simpson (49)
• Arthur Camiel Vanlerberghe (85), Merkem,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Alonzo C Corson (85), Phillips, Franklin, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Geertruida van de Ven (72), Boxmeer, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Armando de Albuquerque (73)
• Augustinus Josephus Dierckx (74), Kasterlee,Antwerpen,Belgium
• August Stook (78), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriaan van de Gruiter (84)
• Albert Frankes Groen (60), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• * Jacoba Johanna (Koosje) Montagne (75), Gouda

• 1969 » Dean Pay, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Luigi Di Biagio, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Mary Grigson, Australian cross-country mountain biker
• 1972 » Julie Gayet, French actress
• 1974 » Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian international footballer and manager
• 1975 » Jose Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1976 » Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
• 1976 » Nikos Chatzis, Greek basketball player

• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (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 2 » Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
• April 6 » The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
• June 24 » The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
• September 26 » Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
• 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 June 3, 1973 was between 6.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.