About the day » Wednesday May 2, 1973Calender converter

• Esther van Erkelens, Den Haag (NL) († 1973)
• Arjen Dethmer Adelerhof († 1975)

• Adrianus Schotman (73), Hillegom, Nederland
• Johannes(Jan) de Krom (83), Bergen op Zoom
• Bertie May Dunaway (78), Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Akke Dankert (85)
• DIRK MOERMAN (85), DEN HELDER
• Adriana Catharina de Smit (87), Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Debora Wilhelmina Muller (85), Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
• Ebolina Ebens (52), Zuidhorn
• Akke Jans DANKERT (85)
• Donald Shelly (74), Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States of America

• 1971 » Fatima Yusuf, Nigerian sprinter
• 1971 » Musashimaru Kōyō, Samoan-American sumo wrestler, the 67th Yokozuna
• 1972 » Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and businessman, co-developed Skype
• 1972 » Dwayne Johnson, American-Canadian wrestler, actor, and producer
• 1972 » Paul Adcock, English footballer
• 1973 » Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director and screenwriter
• 1974 » Andy Johnson, English-Welsh footballer
• 1974 » Horacio Carbonari, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Janek Meet, Estonian footballer
• 1975 » David Beckham, English footballer, coach, and model

• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1974 » James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
• 1977 » Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1922)
• 1979 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1980 » George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

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. Karin
13. Natasja
14. Nicole
15. Patricia
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.
• January 1 » Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
• April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
• 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.
• October 25 » Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
• 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.

The temperature on May 2, 1973 was between 1.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.