* 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

* 1973 – Donnie Edwards, American football player

* 1973 – Randall Godfrey, American football player

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and model

* 1973 – Sun Wen, Chinese footballer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1973 – Claudia Jordan, American model

* 1973 – Christina Moore, American actress

* 1973 – Antonio Osuna, Mexican baseball player

* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Jeff Timmons, American singer and producer ( 98 Degrees )

* 1973 – Kinna McInroe, American actress

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Jazz, American wrestler

* 1973 – Cory Bowles, Canadian actor and choreographer

* 1973 – Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer

* 1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer

* 1973 – Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter

* 1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish author

* 1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress

* 1973 – Monica Goodling, American lawyer

* 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

The so-called Weil conjectures were hugely influential from around 1950 ; they were later proved by Bernard Dwork, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Artin, and Pierre Deligne, who completed the most difficult step in 1973.

* 1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor

* 1973 – Alexander Radčenko, Czech handball player

* 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the " Nixon tapes " to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

* 1973 – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist

** Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer ( d. 1973 )

* April 13 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, British ( Scottish ) inventor of radar ( d. 1973 )

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".

* Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great, Penguin Books, 1973, ISBN 0-14-008878-4 ( pb ).

Quinn also had two more children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn ( born February 7, 1973 ), a New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn ( born December 30, 1976 ), an event producer in Los Angeles, CA.

More recently, Alexander Basilevsky related an account where on May 9, 1973, the rover's open lid touched a crater wall and became covered with dust.

On Friday, July 13, 1973, during a preliminary interview, the Deputy Minority Counsel Donald Sanders asked White House assistant Alexander Butterfield if there was any type of recording system in the White House.

* Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great, 1973, pp 149 – 151.

The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and the revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield in 1973.

* Alexander Parygin (* 1973 ), olympic athlete

In 1900, Mellon, then 45 years old, married Nora Mary McMullen ( 1879 – 1973 ), a 20-year-old Englishwoman who was the daughter of Alexander P. McMullen, a major shareholder of the Guinness Brewing Co.

* Fox, Robin Lane, Alexander the Great 1973.

* Lane Fox, Robin ( 1973 ) Alexander the Great.

They had a son, Alexander Dean Martin ( later an actor ), in 1973, before divorcing in 1978.

In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that on 6 October 1973, during the 1973 Arab Israeli War, Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig to keep Nixon in Florida in order to avoid " any hysterical moves " and to " keep any Walter Mitty tendencies under control ".