About the day » Friday August 17, 1973Calender converter

• Maria Cristina FRIOLI, São Paulo Brazil († 1973)
• Reinier Christiaan Kleijer, Barneveld († 1975)
• Saskia Roodhooft († 2001)

• Châtelaine Christina Margareta le Blansch (86), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adria M. Moss (72), San Diego, California
• Adrianus van de Kerkhof (74), Helmond, Nederland
• Arthur William RADFORD (77)
• Bertha Goudriaan (79), Krimpen aan de Lek
• agnes johanna verlaak (62), roermond (ziekenhuis)
• Delmer Owens (60), Yuba Co, California, United States
• Aaltje Hulsebos (72), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Christianus van der Pol (65), tiel
• Eelkje Geerts Hellinga (87)

• 1970 » Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach
• 1970 » Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
• 1970 » Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1971 » Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach
• 1971 » Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
• 1972 » Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1974 » Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer
• 1976 » Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 » Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director

• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)

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.
• May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• August 5 » Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
• September 24 » Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
• October 16 » Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
• November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.

The temperature on August 17, 1973 was between 14.0 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.