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• Remco Jacobus Lieshout, Krimpen aan de IJssel
• Hillegonda Maria Dumont, Vlaardingen († 1973)
• Lennart de Vries, Steenwijk
• Janneke van Ginkel († 2020)
• Jeanet Sofia Petronella (Sjeanet) Soer, Amsterdam († 2016)

• Antonius Johannes Houtschild (70), Den Haag
• Aukje Mulder (77), Leeuwarden, NL-FR
• Alberdina Köhler (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha, Maria, Cornelia, Johanna Ruemkens (72), Heerlen
• * Anna Maria van Vliet (60), 's-Gravenhage
• Alois Schreiner (92), New Britain, Hartford Co., Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Hendrika Arnoldusdr Van Der Zijden (63), Assen
• Alfio Sacchi (58), Brasil
• Anna Maria Hubertina Tillij Tilly (86), Maastricht
• Anna HAEN(Siebers) (88)

• 1963 » Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
• 1964 » Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1981 » Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author
• 1982 » Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 » Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
• 1984 » Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer

• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• 1969 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1970 » Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1971 » J.I. Rodale, American author and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
• 1982 » Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (b. 1906)

• 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 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
• May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
• July 31 » A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
• August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
• September 11 » JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.
• December 1 » Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.

The temperature on June 8, 1973 was between 10.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.