About the day » Saturday January 27, 1973Calender converter

• Danny Heijman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Graig van de Vijver, Hengelo (O) († 2016)
• Scott Arion SIEVERDING

• Celina Haagens (75), Arnhem
• Adriana Maarleveld (67), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Korteweg (83)
• Bauke van der Meer (74), Oudemirdum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anastácio Kulik (61), Rio Branco do Sul, Paraná, Brasil
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van de Ven (68), Goirle
• Angelina Smits (85), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Augusta Leonia Maria RIBBENS (54), Hoboken
• Barbara Julian Coenjaarts (57), Gulpen
• Boudewijn Franciscus Rhemrev (35), Monnickendam

• 1970 » Bradley Clyde, Australian rugby league player
• 1970 » Dean Headley, English cricketer and coach
• 1971 » Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 » Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
• 1973 » Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1974 » Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and coach
• 1974 » Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1974 » Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete
• 1976 » Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer
• 1976 » Clint Ford, American actor, voice actor and novelist

• 1963 » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b. 1888)
• 1967 » crew of Apollo 1
• 1970 » Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)

• 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.
• April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• May 17 » Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
• May 25 » In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
• July 10 » The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• August 23 » A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
• October 20 » The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

The temperature on January 27, 1973 was between 3.9 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.