About the day » Monday April 2, 1973Calender converter

• Arjan Vos, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2015)
• Astrid Struiksma († 1974)
• Jeffrey Micheal Laughter, North Carolina, United States († 1973)

• Anko Rijskamp (88), Stedum
• Andrea Garcia Solis (73), Laredo, Webb County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Antonius Cornelis van Outheusden (70), Sittard
• Antonius Spruit (81), Oudewater
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Verhage (80), De Bilt
• Christiaan Vonk (76), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Veeger (78), Den Hoorn
• Bernardus Theodorus Eltink (66)
• Cornelis Willem Houweling (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Berend Luining (74), Stadskanaal

• 1971 » Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto, Brazilian footballer
• 1971 » Jason Lewry, English cricketer
• 1971 » Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
• 1972 » Calvin Davis, American sprinter and hurdler
• 1972 » Remo D'Souza, Indian choreographer and dancer
• 1972 » Zane Lamprey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Aleksejs Semjonovs, Latvian footballer
• 1973 » Dmitry Lipartov, Russian footballer
• 1973 » Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American actress
• 1974 » Tayfun Korkut, Turkish football manager and former player

• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1974 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1989 » Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (b. 1939)
• 1992 » Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954)

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. Patricia
14. Nicole
15. Natasja
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 11 » Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
• 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.
• September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• November 16 » Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
• December 18 » Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
• December 21 » The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.

The temperature on April 2, 1973 was between 3.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 21.5 mm of rain during 15.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.