About the day » Friday May 25, 1973Calender converter

• James Edward Carlisle
• Jannetje Wilhelmina Jaatje Christina Martis, Monnickendam (NH, NLD) († 1986)
• Jeroen Weijermars, Wilhelminaoord
• Nanne Rientszn. van der Burg, Franeker, Friesland, Nederland († 1975)
• Doede Hendrik De Haan, Dokkum, Friesland Netherlands († 1988)
• Theodorus Franciscus Maria van Rosmalen, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Fabienne Broeckaert, Elsene, Brussel († 1973)
• Cornelis Johannes van den Bos, Veenendaal († 1973)
• Christian Vosmer, Losser († 2023)

• BERNARDUS NOUWT (56), SCHIEDAM
• van Dolderen (82), Vandreuil, regio Haute-Normandië, France
• Andrew John Steichen (71), Rosemead, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Busio (59), Tilburg
• Arie Krijn Kraaijeveld (61), Amsterdam
• Bernardus Johannes van Gruijthuijsen (81)
• Antonius Nicolaas de Groot (55), Voorhout
• Amos Waldo Murray (79)
• Bernardus van Wees (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amorino Ornella (60)

• 1970 » Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Marco Cappato, Italian politician
• 1971 » Stefano Baldini, Italian runner
• 1972 » Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer
• 1973 » Molly Sims, American model and actress
• 1974 » Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1974 » Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer
• 1974 » Miguel Tejada, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1975 » Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer

• 1968 » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)

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. 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 » The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
• May 8 » A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
• May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
• 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.
• December 6 » The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
• December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

The temperature on May 25, 1973 was between 9.5 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.