* 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

The Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis.

The WTA was founded at a meeting organized by Billie Jean King, a week before the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.

He later lost to Billie Jean King in The Battle of the Sexes at the Houston, Texas, Astrodome, on 20 September 1973.

Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, but other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears ' 1972 recording " Souvenirs & California Mem ' rys " and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single " Would You Lay With Me ( In a Field of Stone )," which was a number one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records.

" In this match, on September 20, 1973, in Houston, Texas, women's tennis champion Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, before a worldwide television audience estimated at almost 50 million.

* American tennis player Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the " Battle of the Sexes " tennis match in 1973.

* " The Withered Arm " ( 7 Nov 1973 BBC2 ), adapted by Rhys Adrian, directed by Desmond Davis and starring Billie Whitelaw

In 1973 Morgan Freeman, director / actress Billie Allen, and journalist Clayton Riley honored Silvera and his efforts to support African-American actors and playwrights by co-founding the Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop Foundation, Inc.

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 1950 ), Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas ( 1973 ) and the translation from French of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas ( originally Babar et le père Noël, 1941 ).

* Macek, Josef, " Jean Huss et les Traditions Hussites: XVe – XIXe siècles ," Plon, Paris, 1973, OCLC 905875 in

* 1973 Jean Cocteau par Jean Cocteau ( posthumous ; A discussion with William Fielfield )

* 1928 – Jean Barraqué, French composer ( d. 1973 )

He was also in Jean Kerr's 1973 Broadway farce Finishing Touches, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Lansing, James Woods, and others.

This was illustrated during the 1973 Stonewall rally when, moments after Barbara Gittings exuberantly praised the diversity of the crowd, feminist activist Jean O ' Leary protested what she perceived as the mocking of women by cross-dressers and drag queens in attendance.

** Jean Barraqué, French composer ( d. 1973 )

Embracing the Parisian avant-garde, Foucault entered into a romantic relationship with the composer Jean Barraqué ( 1928 – 1973 ), a prominent advocate of serialism.

Jean Hersholt's grandson Gregg Hersholt has been a radio news broadcaster in the Pacific Northwest since 1973.

Mick Rock directed and edited four clips, all originally shot on 16 mm colour film, to promote four consecutive David Bowie singles —" John, I'm Only Dancing " ( May 1972 ), " The Jean Genie " ( Nov. 1972 ), the December 1972 US re-release of " Space Oddity " and the 1973 release of the single " Life On Mars " ( lifted from Bowie's earlier album Hunky Dory ).

* Season 6 ( 1972 – 1973 ): Lily Tomlin, Richard Dawson, Moosie Drier, Tod Bass, Brian Bressler, Patti Deutsch, Lisa Farringer, Sarah Kennedy, Jud Strunk, Willie Tyler, Donna Jean Young.

* Jean Poiret: La Cage aux Folles ( 1973 )

She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.

He returned to Broadway in 1973 to portray Steven Cooper in the original production of Jean Kerr's Finishing Touches.

* Jean Yves Domalain, Panjamon: I Was a Headhunter, ( Publisher: William Morrow, January 1973 ), ISBN 0688001432, ISBN 978-0688001438

* Wagner, Jean, Black poets of the United States: from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes, University of Illinois Press, 1973, ISBN 0-252-00341-1

Publicity photo of Connor and Jean Stapleton in All in the Family, 1973.

The play was adapted to an urban American setting for a 1973 film ( also called Rhinoceros ) directed by Tom O ' Horgan and starring Zero Mostel as John ( Jean in the play ), Gene Wilder as Stanley ( Berenger ) and Karen Black as Daisy.

Opening at the St. James Theatre on 1 December 1971, with Shapiro directing and Jean Erdman as choreographer, it ran for 614 performances, closing on 20 May 1973.