About the day » Wednesday May 16, 1973Calender converter

• Jana Tesařová († 2006)
• Frederik Mancel Alexander Meurer, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada († 2011)
• N.N. Botter, Leiden († 1973)
• Duncan Dillon Jeremias, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Albert Hoving (61)
• Aldert Jans Hamstra (59), Kollumerzwaag, Gem. Kollumerland
• Cecelia Faye Prall (87), Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
• Alice Muyldermans (80), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Verhoef (88), Hull, Sioux County, Iowa
• Bintje Tymens Hiemstra (78), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Asscher (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kootte (68), Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina Maria Sweens (100), Utrecht
• Aartje Hoeve (81), Harderwijk

• 1970 » Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player
• 1971 » Phil Clarke, English rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Rachel Goswell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Christian Califano, French rugby player
• 1972 » Matthew Hart, New Zealand cricketer
• 1973 » Tori Spelling, American actress, reality television personality, and author
• 1974 » Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 » Sonny Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and rapper
• 1975 » Simon Whitfield, Canadian triathlete
• 1975 » Tony Kakko, Finnish musician, composer, and vocalist

• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)
• 1979 » A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Margaret Hamilton, American actress (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. Hendrik
13. Cornelis
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 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 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
• March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• July 10 » The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• December 17 » Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.

The temperature on May 16, 1973 was between -0.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (93%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.