About the day » Wednesday December 19, 1973Calender converter

• Raffi Jamgochian, Armenia († 1993)
• Sjaak de Vries († 1975)
• Brian David Himmelsbach, Cincinnati, Ohio († 1987)

• Cornelis (Kees) BUISMAN (81), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Jan Meijboom (83), Zutphen
• Benjamin VIJSMA (63), Amsterdam
• Cecilia Petronella Kessels (74), Panningen, Limburg, Nederland
• August Josephus van der Beelen (74), Reuver,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Didericus van Huijgevoort (83), Tilburg
• Dingeman Verhoeven (93), Nieuw-Vennep, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Bischof (93), Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Hohensteinerstr. 14
• Cornelis Buisman (81), Amsterdam
• Caecilia Petronella Kessels (74), Helden

• 1971 » Karen Pickering, English swimmer
• 1972 » Alyssa Milano, American actress and television personality
• 1973 » Erick Wainaina, Kenyan runner
• 1973 » Michalis Grigoriou, Greek footballer and coach
• 1973 » Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
• 1974 » Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer
• 1974 » Felipe Lopez, Dominican-American basketball player
• 1974 » Jake Plummer, American football player and sportscaster
• 1974 » Joe Jurevicius, American football player
• 1974 » Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 1986 » V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1987 » August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1988 » Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)

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. Natasja
13. Karin
14. Patricia
15. Saskia
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.
• April 2 » Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
• April 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
• May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• August 5 » Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
• October 21 » Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
• November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

The temperature on December 19, 1973 was between -0.6 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.