About the day » Thursday February 15, 1973Calender converter

• Cornelia Tuitman, Middelstum
• Frank de Haas, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jasper Schaareman, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)

• Arent Jan WIKKERINK (72), Aalten, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Abel Klinghagen (64), South Dakota
• Anthony Leendert Klompe (84)
• Cleo Bothwell (87), Waynoka, Woods, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anthon Elbertus Ruijs (85), Aerdenhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Duijn (62), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Auke de Vries (77), Dokkum (Friesland)
• Andre Roger Aime Durnez (45), Geluveld, België
• Andre Roger Aime Durnez (45), Geluveld
• Bernardus Johannes Albertusz Lakerink (78), Losser

• 1971 » Alex Borstein, American actress, voice artist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Renee O'Connor, American actress, director, and producer
• 1972 » Jaromír Jágr, Czech ice hockey player
• 1973 » Amy van Dyken, American swimmer
• 1973 » Kateřina Neumannová, Czech skier
• 1974 » Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver and businessman
• 1974 » Miranda July, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1975 » Annemarie Kramer, Dutch sprinter
• 1975 » Serge Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1974 » Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (b. 1926)
• 1981 » Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)

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. Patricia
14. Karin
15. Nicole
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 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
• January 11 » Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
• January 22 » The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• March 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
• October 21 » Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
• December 3 » Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

The temperature on February 15, 1973 was between 0.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.