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• N.n. ter Veen, Noordoostpolder († 1973)
• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1973)
• Lyndon John (Larry) WESCOMBE, Burnie, Tasmania, Australia († 2011)

• ALBERT COMPAGNE (71)
• Arthur Barney Allen (64), Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia
• Aaltje Prummel (87), Heemstede (NL)
• Aaltje Rus (75), Sint Maarten
• Albert Compagne (71), Hardenberg
• Derk Jan Willemsen (68), Hengelo
• Christina Martha Luth (84), `s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Simondr Rus (75), Alkmaar
• Antonius Gerardus Henricus van Sprundel (69), Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allen Irwin SLONE (81), Anchorage,Anchorage,Alaska,ÉTATS-UNIS d'AMÉRIQUE

• 1972 » Max Wilson, German-Brazilian race car driver
• 1972 » Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 » Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
• 1972 » Steve Kline, American baseball player and coach
• 1973 » Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1973 » Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1973 » Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Roslina Bakar, Malaysian sport shooter
• 1974 » Agustín Pichot, Argentinian rugby player
• 1974 » Cory Gardner, American politician

• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 » Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 » James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 » James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)

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. Patricia
14. Karin
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• 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 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
• June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• June 27 » The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
• July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
• December 28 » The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by Pres. Richard Nixon.

The temperature on August 22, 1973 was between 4.5 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.