About the day » Sunday October 21, 1973Calender converter

• Steve Rosez
• David Wetter († 1973)
• Wilhelm Bastiaan (Bas) van der Vegt, Nijmegen
• Paul Rutten († 1997)

• Aart Duijst (59), -
• Aalderikus Jacob Drenth (68), Emmen
• Arie Schaap (82), Hoorn
• Arthur Bevernage (80), Ninove
• Bertus Snaas (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Arthur Burns Stevenson (49), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Albertus Bennink (65), Hoogeveen nederland
• Arthur-Joseph Van den Berghe (67), Aalst
• Carolus Vanspringel (79), Geel, België
• Catharina Johanna Hoevenaars (69), Oosterhout, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1971 » Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer
• 1971 » Hal Duncan, Scottish author and poet
• 1971 » Nick Oliveri, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1972 » Ashutosh Agashe, Indian businessman and cricketer
• 1972 » Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian scholar and academic
• 1972 » Matthew Friedberger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Orlando Thomas, American football player († 2014)
• 1973 » Charlie Lowell, American pianist and songwriter
• 1973 » Lera Auerbach, Russian-American pianist and composer
• 1974 » Costel Busuioc, Romanian tenor

• 1965 » Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (b. 1926)
• 1969 » Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (b. 1922)
• 1969 » Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Minnie Evans, Potawatomi leader (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Nasif Estéfano, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1932)
• 1975 » Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Ferit Tüzün, Turkish composer (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 » Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)

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. 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.
• January 22 » In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
• March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
• August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
• November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• 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.

The temperature on October 21, 1973 was between 3.9 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.