Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

* 1873 – The British steamer sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

The party's leader Antonin Svehla ( 1873 – 1933 ) was prime minister several times.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Ramaprasad Chanda, Indian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1942 )

* 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1873 – The Colfax Massacre takes place.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

* 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

* 1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish authoer ( d. 1873 )

* 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

* 1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

* 1873 – William Tite, English architect ( b. 1798 )

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

* 1948 – Kan ' ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( b. 1793 )

* 1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

Paris, 1860 – 1873

** Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( b. 1873 )

Gheorghe Ţiţeica (; 4 October 1873 in Turnu Severin – 5 February 1939 ) publishing as George or Georges Tzitzeica ) was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry.

In 1873 he fought a duel with Paul de Cassagnac, and he acted as second to Georges Clemenceau more than once.

Ernest-Aimé Feydeau ( 16 March 1821 – 27 October 1873 ) was a French writer and the father of the notorious comic playwright Georges Feydeau.

Also in 1873, Colonne, along with the music publisher Georges Hartmann, founded the " Concert National " at the Odéon Théatre.

In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.

* 1873 – Francis Garnier, French explorer ( b. 1839 )

* 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic nun ( d. 1897 )

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian ( b. 1797 )

* 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer ( d. 1873 )

* 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator ( d. 1954 )

As well as the Hall, Waterhouse built a new range of rooms, Red Buildings ( 1871 – 2 ), in French Renaissance style, designed a new Master's Lodge on the site of Paschal Yard ( 1873, later to become N staircase ), pulled down the old Lodge and the south range of Old Court to open a vista to the Chapel, and finally built a new Library ( 1877 – 8 ) in the continental Gothic style.

* 1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer ( b. 1823 )

* 1873 – Alfred Jarry, French playwright ( d. 1907 )

* August 12 – Anna Held, French actress ( b. 1873 )

* March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director ( b. 1873 )

* August 4 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director ( b. 1873 )

* January 4 – Leon Delagrange, French pioneer aviator ( b. 1873 )

* November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer ( d. 1873 )

* September 30 – St Thérèse de Lisieux, French Catholic saint ( b. 1873 )

* May 28 – Louis Agassiz, French zoologist and geologist ( d. 1873 )

* February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French silent film director ( b. 1873 )

* April 20 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( d. 1873 )