About the day » Thursday March 1, 1973Calender converter

• Dena Raye Todd, Tyler, Smith, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Nathalie Christina Fredriksz, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dennis Nicolaas Velzeboer, Purmerend († 1980)
• Bregit Jansen, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hermanus Jacobus DE WAAL († 1993)
• Fletcher F Krause, Maryland († 2015)

• Anna Maria Catharina Penders (77), Geulle (Meerssen), Limburg, Nederland
• Arend Kok (90)
• Antonius Martinus van den Berg (63), Den Helder
• Anthonius Martinus van den Berg (61)
• Augustine Simonne Mercier (63), Le Havre, 76600, FRANCE
• Arnold Friederich Wiebus (64), Oberhausen DE
• Berend van Dijk (79), Oosterwolde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Cornelis Brussee (76), Verenigde Statn
• Alfred R. Schimmel (95), Eugene, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Arend Nijensikkens (64)

• 1953 » Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1953 » Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
• 1954 » Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1954 » Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania
• 1956 » Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 » Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Nick Griffin, English politician
• 1961 » Mike Rozier, American football player
• 1966 » Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1966 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1976 » Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1979 » Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)

• 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.
• March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• May 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
• September 19 » King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
• September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

The temperature on March 1, 1973 was between 2.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.