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

* 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1934 )

* John Stuart Mill ( 1806 – 1873 )

John Jaques apparently claimed in a letter to Arthur Lillie in 1873 that he had himself seen the game played in Ireland and, " I made the implements and published directions ( such as they were ) before Mr Spratt above introduced the subject to me ".

* 1819 – John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco ( d. 1873 )

On the death of his father King John on 29 October 1873, the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne as King Albert.

He hanged another murderer, John Gaffney, on February 14, 1873.

* Symonds, John Addington, Studies of the Greek Poets, 1873.

The Winnington site, built in 1873 by the entrepreneurs John Tomlinson Brunner and Ludwig Mond, was also the base for the former the company Brunner, Mond & Co. Ltd. and, after the merger which created ICI, the powerful and influential Alkali Division.

* John Wesley Brown ( 1873 – 1944 ), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922 – 1923

* John Walker Baily ( 1809 – 1873 ), archaeologist

* Classics Illustrated No. 112, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( October 1953 ), is based on John C. Abbott's 1873 book ; the comic book went through nine printings between 1953 and 1969.

In 1873, a private philanthropist ( John Anderson ) gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ( south of New Bedford ), and presented him with $ 50, 000 to permanently endow it as a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology.

In 1873, on the death of his father, John Strutt, 2nd Baron Rayleigh, he inherited the Barony of Rayleigh.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Classical economists such as Adam Smith ( 1723 – 1790 ) and John Stuart Mill ( 1806 – 1873 ) provided a theoretical background to resource-allocation, production, and pricing issues.

* 1873 – John Barton King, American cricketer ( d. 1965 )

In 1873, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of the Pacific Scandal, negotiated for Prince Edward Island to join Canada.

Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada ( 1867 – 1873, 1878 – 1891 )

1873 ), John Lobb Bootmaker ( est.

Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke and in 1873 John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans, but substituting a scissor kick for the traditional flutter kick in order to reduce splashing.

John Ericsson invented an electrically propelled torpedo in 1873 ; it was powered by a cable from an external power source, as batteries of the time had insufficient capacity.

Sir John A. Macdonald was second-in-line, with 19 years, as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history ( 1867 – 1873, 1878 – 1891 ).

* January 8 – John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross ( born 1873 )

* December 23 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist ( b. 1873 )