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• Daniël Cornelis Herbert Fris, Oude-Tonge, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Emma Charlotte Abel WISE, Sherborne Dorset England U.K († 1974)
• Johanna Jacoba (Anette) Meulman, Hengelo († 2009)
• Johanna Jacoba Meulman, Hengelo († 2009)
• Henri Koning, Goes
• Daniel Lee Brubaker, Ohio or Pennsylvania († 1995)
• Emma Charlotte Abel Wise [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss, Sherborne, Dorset, Uk († 1974)

• Abel van der Veen (59), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Klinkje (93), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, V.S
• Christina Johanna Lee (82), Bloemendaal
• Annetta Catharina Cornelia Peterson (87)
• Adrianus (Adriaan) Korpershoek (64), Maasland, Midden-Delfland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Carolina Dorothea Leunissen (83), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Charles Jacob Evert Stok (86), Rijswijk
• Atte Meinderts Hibma (79), Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Ann Florence Berkson (73), Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Cornelis Brussee (87), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1971 » Joe Enochs, American soccer player and manager
• 1973 » J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1973 » Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1973 » Rieko Miura, Japanese singer and actress
• 1973 » Simon Shaw, English rugby player
• 1973 » Zach Thomas, American football player
• 1974 » Burn Gorman, American-born English actor and musician
• 1974 » Jason Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
• 1974 » Jhonen Vasquez, American writer, director, cartoonist, and comic illustrator
• 1974 » Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese director and producer, founded Ordet Animation Studio

• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)
• 1974 » Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Albert Speer, German architect and author (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Władysław Gomułka, Polish activist and politician (b. 1905)

• 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.
• February 21 » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
• April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
• May 25 » In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
• October 14 » In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• November 4 » The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
• December 28 » The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by Pres. Richard Nixon.

The temperature on September 1, 1973 was between 14.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.