About the day » Thursday February 1, 1973Calender converter

• Melanie Shantel Bates, Lebanon, Haywood, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Marijke van Slooten († 2006)
• Henricus Franciscus Johannes Wilhelmus van de Koolwijk, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Marijtje van Slooten († 2006)

• Catharina Pex (68), Bree, Provincie Limburg, België
• AREND JAN VAN DE BRINK (58)
• Charles George Finlay (65), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Conradina Wilhelmina von Weiler (83), Leiderdorp,Gemeente Leiderdorp,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adriana van Geel (84), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Catharina Zwart (50)
• Antonia Catharina Bolder (87), 's-Gravenhage
• Barbara Geddes Milne (88), Windygates, Fife, Scotland
• Cornelis Burggraaf (75)
• Agnieta Jeannette Hoeufft (81), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1970 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor († 2000)
• 1970 » Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
• 1971 » Harald Brattbakk, Norwegian footballer and pilot
• 1971 » Michael C. Hall, American actor and producer
• 1972 » Christian Ziege, German footballer
• 1973 » Óscar Pérez Rojas, Mexican footballer
• 1973 » Andrew DeClercq, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Walter McCarty, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 » Martijn Reuser, Dutch footballer
• 1976 » Phil Ivey, American poker player

• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, 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. 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.
• April 28 » The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
• June 21 » In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
• July 29 » Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
• October 10 » U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
• October 14 » In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

The temperature on February 1, 1973 was between -2.6 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.