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• Vivianne VRONEN, Heerlen (NL/LI) († 1998)
• James Elmer Thomas Welborn, Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Michelle Lee Harmer, Woodstock, Ontario (Canada)
• Maarten van der Laan, Haarlem
• Edward de Boer, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1997)

• Bregje Hoorweg (35), Drunen
• Antonius Beemer (79), Maarssen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonie Pietersz van 't Riet (97), Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland
• Egbert Jan Hamberg (84), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arend Schonewille (48), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arend Schonewille (48), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonie Arnoldus van t Riet (97), Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• David Manteau (56), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Peerts (72), Kalcken
• Anthonie Arnoldus van 't Riet (97), Broek op L'dijk

• 1972 » Mike Knuble, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 » Stephen Giles, Canadian canoe racer and engineer
• 1973 » Anjelika Krylova, Russian ice dancer and coach
• 1973 » Gackt, Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor
• 1973 » Jan Magnussen, Danish race car driver
• 1973 » Keiko Ihara, Japanese race car driver
• 1973 » Michael Johnson, English-Jamaican footballer and manager
• 1973 » Tony Popovic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Jill Craybas, American tennis player
• 1974 » La'Roi Glover, American football player and sportscaster

• 1969 » Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1970 » Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (b. 1884)
• 1971 » August Derleth, American anthologist and author (b. 1909)
• 1971 » Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
• 1974 » André Randall, French actor (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli colonel (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (b. 1918)

• 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.
• March 17 » The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
• May 11 » Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
• May 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
• 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.
• November 22 » The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• December 3 » Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

The temperature on July 4, 1973 was between 14.2 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.