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• Wilhelmus Christianus Terwal, Dordrecht
• Amina Page Mujagic, Sacramento, California († 2010)
• Roelant Anton Mulder, Groningen († 1994)
• Wilhelmus Christianus Terwal, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Janine De Vries
• Xavier MAUS de ROLLEY († 1996)
• Dennis Oostra († 1974)
• Dennis Oostra († 1974)

• Esther Van Stappen (57), Antwerpen
• Essie Elema (11), Usquert,, Groningen, Nederland
• Essine Gerardina Elema (11), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Aaltje Tepper (76), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Edward Charles Stewin, Headingley (Manitoba, Canada)
• Cornelis Timmerman (76), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Duffie J. Fowler (51), Horry County,South Carolina
• Anna Julia Raus (77), Turnhout
• Elizabeth Langley Robinson (86), Novato (Californie)
• Esther Eugenie Helene Van de Vijver (74), Lemberge

• 1972 » Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1972 » Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian
• 1973 » Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Martina Ertl-Renz, German skier
• 1973 » Paul Walker, American actor and producer († 2013)
• 1973 » Tarana Burke, American civil rights activist
• 1974 » Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot († 2007)
• 1974 » Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter

• 1967 » Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1968 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 1972 » William Boyd, American actor and producer (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• 1978 » William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, essayist and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)

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. Saskia
14. Patricia
15. Karin
16. Nicole

• 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 27 » The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
• June 9 » In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
• June 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
• October 6 » Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
• December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

The temperature on September 12, 1973 was between 4.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.