About the day » Monday July 16, 1973Calender converter

• Gerardus Johannes Edwin van Hulst († 1976)
• Ramin Martinus Jansen, Ede († 1973)
• Fokke Langhout, Welsrijp (gemeente Hennaarderadeel) († 1995)

• Charles Alexander Sassen (68), Sittard (L)
• Albertus Johan baron van Heeckeren (73), Lochem,Gemeente Lochem,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Carel Maas (69), Mierlo
• Anna vd poorten (79), Roosendaal
• Aleida Diena Elfering (33)
• Aleida Diena Elfering (33)
• Antoine De Cramer (61), Aalter,9880,Oost Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België
• Adrianus Augustinus Alphons Rikkers (71)
• Aaltje van Engelen (64), Nunspeet
• Carroll Clarence Chambers (45), Vancouver, Clark, Washington, Verenigde Staten

• 1971 » Corey Feldman, American actor
• 1972 » Ben Cahoon, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 1972 » François Drolet, Canadian speed skater
• 1973 » Graham Robertson, American director and producer
• 1973 » Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
• 1973 » Tim Ryan, American politician
• 1974 » Jeremy Enigk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Maret Maripuu, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1974 » Ryan McCombs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 » Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby player

• 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1982 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• 1985 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)

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. Saskia
14. Patricia
15. Karin
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.
• February 21 » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
• July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
• July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
• September 18 » The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
• October 8 » Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
• November 25 » Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

The temperature on July 16, 1973 was between 13.6 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.