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

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

Zélie and Louis were married at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Alençon on 12 July 1858 and spent their whole married life in Alençon, where Thérèse was born in January 1873 and spent her early childhood until the death of her mother in 1877.

* Thérèse de Lisieux ( 1873 – 1897 ), Roman Catholic nun who was canonised as a saint, and is one of only 33 Doctors of the Church

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 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( d. 1939 )

* 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 )

** Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( 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 )

* 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 )