* 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

* Erinn Bartlett ( b. 1973 ), American actress

View under Washington Street Elevated, looking south from Bartlett Street ( 1973 )

He served as an aide to Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett from 1963 to 1967 and then entered academia, working as a political science and public policy professor at Duke University from 1973 until his first campaign for Congress in 1986.

# King of Moomba ( 1967 to 1987 ): British actor Robert Morley ( 1967 ), British actor Alfred Marks ( 1968 ), Italian opera singer Tito Gobbi ( 1969 ), featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon ( 1970 ), Russian clown Oleg Popov ( 1971 ), pop singer Johnny Farnham ( 1972 ) with Collingwood footballer Lou Richards as his Jester, indigenous Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls ( 1973 ), ballet dancer Sir Robert Helpmann ( 1974 ), entertainer Rolf Harris ( 1975 ), entertainer Barry Crocker ( 1976 ), Disney character Mickey Mouse as King of Moomba and TV Personality Ugly Dave Gray as a Jester ( 1977 ), first Melbourne born king, entertainer Bert Newton ( 1978 ), entertainer Graham Kennedy ( 1979 ), TV actor Paul Cronin ( 1980 ), Richards again but this time as King ( 1981 ), film, TV and stage actor Frank Thring ( 1982 ), TV Personality Daryl Somers ( 1983 ), footballer Kevin Bartlett ( 1984 ), TV Personality Ian " Molly " Meldrum ( 1985 ), motor racing driver Peter Brock ( 1986 ) and champion doubles tennis player Paul McNamee ( 1987 ).

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1973 – Brittany Andrews, American porn actress

* 1973 – Molly Henneberg, American journalist

* 1973 – Eric Medlen, American drag racer ( d. 2007 )

* 1973 – Jay Meetze, American conductor and producer

* 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player

* 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress

* 1973 – Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder

* 1973 – Michael Ealy, American actor

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

* 1973 – Senta Moses, American actress

* 1973 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model

* 1973 – Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress

* 1973 – Tine Wittler, German actress and writer

* 1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress

* 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Sarah Kozer, American model and actress

* 1973 – Luisa Ranieri, Italian actress

* 1973 – Shalom Harlow, Canadian model and actress

* 1973 – Danielle Winits, Brazilian actress

* 1915 – Mary Kornman, American actress ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Thuy Trang, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1973 – Christie Clark, American actress

* 1973 – Alex Borstein, American actress

* 1973 – Sarah Wynter, Australian actress

* 1898 – Alla Tarasova, Soviet actress ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Irina Björklund, Finnish actress

* 1973 – Jeon Do-yeon, Korean actress