About the day » Friday August 17, 1973Calender converter

• Reinier Christiaan Kleijer, Barneveld († 1975)
• Maria Cristina FRIOLI, São Paulo Brazil († 1973)
• Saskia Roodhooft († 2001)

• Charles Sherman Jernagan (79), Attica, Fountain, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Johanna van Eindhoven (74), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Vandael (80), Lubbeek Vlaams Brabant
• Clara E. Reynolds (77), Somerset, Pulaski, KY
• Arendje van Veelen (85), Leiden
• Doris Mabel Manning (77), Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
• Antonia Francisca van Loon (76)
• Beulah Stuff (81)
• Dirkje Kloos (79), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eva Dorothea Sommer (82)

• 1970 » Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach
• 1970 » Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
• 1970 » Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1971 » Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach
• 1971 » Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
• 1972 » Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1974 » Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer
• 1976 » Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 » Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director

• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Robert
6. Marcel
7. Marco
8. Michael
9. Richard
10. Mark
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 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
• April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• 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.
• July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
• 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.
• December 18 » Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 17, 1973 was between 14.0 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.