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

* 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American bandleader and musician ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

* 1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader ( d. 1966 )

* June 1 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician ( b. 1873 )

* Jack O ' Neill ( baseball ) ( 1873 – 1935 ), Irish-American baseball player

George Vital " Papa Jack " Laine ( September 21, 1873 – June 1, 1966 ) was a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish-American War to World War I.

* Jack Kennedy ( footballer ) ( 1873 – after 1902 ), Scottish inside-right player

Gen E. R. S. Canby was killed here in April 1873 by Captain Jack at a meeting attempting to negotiate peace terms.

" Eventually, Captain Jack ( Kintpuash ), Boston Charley, Schonchin John and Black Jim were tried for murder, convicted, and executed on October 3, 1873.

After fleeing the Stronghold, the band of Modoc splintered, and the last group, made up of Captain Jack, John Schonchin, Black Jim, and Boston Charley were captured on June 1, 1873.

* Jack Jones, full name John Joseph Jones ( 1873 – 1941 ), British Labour MP for Silvertown

* Jack Fitzgerald ( 1873 – 1929 ), founder member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain

Kintpuash ( Strikes the water brashly ), better known as Captain Jack ( circa 1837-October 3, 1873 ), was a chief of the Native American Modoc tribe of California and Oregon, and was their leader during the Modoc War.

In April 1873, Captain Jack and others killed General Edward Canby and another peace commissioner, and wounded others.

On October 3, 1873, Captain Jack and his three lead warriors were hanged at Fort Klamath.

On Good Friday, April 11, 1873, fed up with the long process and little perceived progress, Captain Jack and some of his men ambushed and killed General Canby and another peace commissioner and wounded two more.

Finally, in June 1873, Captain Jack surrendered.

* Captain Jack ( Native American ) ( c. 1837 – 1873 ), Kintpuash, leader of the Modoc tribe

* John " Jack " Farrell ( 1873 – 22 February 1947 ) was an English professional footballer.