About the day » Sunday January 7, 1973Calender converter

• Rene Kroon, Hazerswoude (Rijnwoude), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1981)

• Antonia de Spee (5)
• Berend Buining (80)
• Aartje Hornsveld (84), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Zinger (73), Wijster, Beilen
• Bernardus Henderikus Scherpen (85), Weiteveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan Wesdorp (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Schalen (82), Avereest
• Bastiaantje Kooij (85), Strijen, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Zoutsma (46)
• Bernardus Henderikus (Bernard) (Adelheid Scherpen (geboren Brinkman)) Scherpen (85), Weiteveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1967 » Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1969 » Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager
• 1970 » Andy Burnham, English politician
• 1971 » Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1972 » Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
• 1974 » Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician
• 1976 » Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 » Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
• 1977 » Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
• 1979 » Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist.

• 1960 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer(b. 1908)
• 1981 » Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

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. Natasja
13. Saskia
14. Patricia
15. Karin
16. Nicole

• 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 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
• June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
• September 11 » A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
• October 20 » The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
• 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 January 7, 1973 was between 0.3 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.