About the day » Wednesday January 17, 1973Calender converter

• Bouke Fokke Pieter Roetering, Den Helder
• Jacoba Helena Antoinetta van Sommeren, Wijchen
• Glenn Edward Arnold, Invercargill, New Zealand († 2005)

• Radstake (77), Apeldoorn
• August Leonard REISS (67), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus Adrianus van den Nouwelant1 (80), Tilburg
• Arnold Gerard Schmitz (76)
• Antoine van Mersbergen (90)
• Beulah M Barrickman (89), San Joaquin County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius, Franciscus Harmsen (72)
• Adrianus Achilles Henricus van der Westerlaken (47), Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adolf Marie de Block (57), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Arjen Sietzema, Beetsterzwaag

• 1971 » Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player
• 1971 » Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1971 » Richard Burns, English race car driver († 2005)
• 1973 » Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1973 » Chris Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer of Australia
• 1973 » Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor
• 1973 » Liz Ellis, Australian netball player and sportscaster
• 1974 » Derrick Mason, American football player
• 1974 » Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer
• 1974 » Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager

• 1961 » Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
• 1970 » Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1977 » Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1981 » Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)

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. 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.
• May 11 » Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
• July 25 » Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
• November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
• December 3 » Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
• December 15 » John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
• December 20 » The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

The temperature on January 17, 1973 was between -3.5 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.