About the day » Tuesday May 8, 1973Calender converter

• Johanna E Harkema († 1989)
• Lori M Dirks († 2022)
• Robert Willemsen de Bock, Maastricht († 1977)
• Marc de Hoon, Gilze en Rijen († 1999)
• Cornelia Angelique van Krieken, Heukelum West Betuwe (GL) († 2022)

• Arendje Buijs (71), Bergschenhoek, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anje Deddes Knol (83), Appingedam
• Albert DACH (83), Nancy,54000,Meurthe-et-Moselle,LORRAINE,FRANCE
• Anje Knol (83), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleida Jannie (Leida) Vlas (56), Gellibrand Victoria Australië
• Alphonsus Joannes Vloet van der (81), Ewijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ada Jean Edwards (67), London, England, UK
• Catharina Jacoba Johanna Aaftink (94), Amsterdam
• Clara Burger (90), Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Carlo N Barba (67)

• 1971 » Candice Night, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Chuck Huber, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Darren Hayes, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Ray Whitney, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 » Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1973 » Jesús Arellano, Mexican footballer
• 1973 » Marcus Brigstocke, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Christian XXX, American pornographic star
• 1974 » Korey Stringer, American football player († 2001)
• 1974 » Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer

• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1972 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Avery Brundage, American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)
• 1980 » Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)

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. Karin
14. Patricia
15. Saskia
16. Nicole

• 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 14 » Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
• May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
• June 20 » Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
• 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.
• September 28 » The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
• November 16 » Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

The temperature on May 8, 1973 was between 4.1 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.