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• Josephina Maria Peters, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Slob, Ameide (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Petrus Christianus Gerardus Roozen, Tilburg († 1973)
• Wilco Arends, Naarden,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christi Kay Bochmann († 1973)

• Akke van Wijngaarden (83), Hoorn
• Carolus Theodorus de Kort (69), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Onrust (44), Apeldoorn
• Carol H. Jopp (74), Reedsburg, Wisconsin
• Anna Maria Gielen (71), Neerkant
• Auguste Plassmann (71)
• Catharina Rosalia van den Bosch (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL
• Augustina Victoria Leau, de (98), Utrecht
• Anje Tjapkes SCHOONVELD (66), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Cleo Mae Whip (69), fortasse, somewhere in MO

• 1970 » Adrian Lam, Papua New Guinean-Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1970 » Debbie Graham, American tennis player
• 1970 » Doug Glanville, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Jo Dee Messina, American singer-songwriter
• 1970 » Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Jason Death, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 » Fatih Akın, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
• 1975 » Brad Drew, Australian rugby league player
• 1975 » Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer and coach

• 1967 » Oscar Cabalén, Argentine race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Robert Cosgrove, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)
• 1973 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
• 1976 » Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (b. 1883)

• 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 23 » United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 14 » The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
• September 19 » King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.

The temperature on August 25, 1973 was between 9.0 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.