About the day » Friday March 16, 1973Calender converter

• Ricardo Eyng, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1973)
• Claudia Margreeth Oostland, Siddeburen (gem. Midden-Groningen) († 1974)
• Jan Hekman, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland († 1973)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Timmers, Leiden († 1973)
• Patrick, Camiel, Maria De Prest, Brugge,8000,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België († 1996)
• Jan Hekman, Hardenberg († 1973)

• Antonius Petrus SCHLAMAN (46), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Age, Pieter Dorenstouter (49)
• Bart van Lent (75)
• Eggert Kristian Vilhelm Jørgensen (77), Maribo, Denmark
• Arlo Gene KOKKE (24), New Holland, Douglas, South Dakota
• Cornelis Jansz Gorter (87)
• Bertus van de Velden (75), Hilversum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Ruijscher (81), Zaamslag, Zeeland, NL
• Cornelis de Ruijsscher (81), Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Overhof (64), Tegelen

• 1971 » Alan Tudyk, American actor
• 1971 » Franck Comba, French rugby player
• 1972 » Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner
• 1973 » Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer
• 1973 » Vonda Ward, American boxer
• 1974 » Anne Charrier, French actress
• 1974 » Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician
• 1974 » Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1975 » Luciano Castro, Argentine actor
• 1975 » Sienna Guillory, English model and actress

• 1967 » Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1968 » Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1971 » Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Pie Traynor, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1975 » T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
• 1977 » Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)

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. David
14. Hendrik
15. Dennis
16. Ronald

1. Sandra
2. Bianca
3. Maria
4. Johanna
5. Miranda
6. Wendy
7. Monique
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Anna
11. Jennifer
12. Patricia
13. Natasja
14. Karin
15. Nicole
16. Anita

• 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 17 » The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
• April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• October 8 » Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
• October 16 » Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 31 » Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.

The temperature on March 16, 1973 was between -3.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.