* 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

Using scientific knowledge from textbooks in the trunk of his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the medieval soldiers to victory over the Deadites and Evil Ash, saving Sheila and bringing peace between Arthur and Henry in the process.

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 ).

* 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1973 Henry II.

* In the 1973 Sergio Leone / Tonino Valerii spaghetti western My Name is Nobody, the characters Jack Beauregard ( Henry Fonda ) and " Nobody " ( Terence Hill ) meet at a cemetery.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1973 ) consisted exclusively of Rick and all his synthesisers.

He has stated in interviews that Il mio nome è Nessuno ( My Name Is Nobody, 1973 ), in which he co-starred with the American Henry Fonda, is his personal favorite of all his films.

* April 12 – Henry Darger, reclusive American outsider artist ( d. 1973 )

* Henry C. Wilkinson, Bermuda from Sail to Steam: The History of the Island from 1784 to 1901: Volumes I and II ( Oxford University, London, 1973 )

In the introduction to The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories ( Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 ), William Trevor writes that when Porter was in the Ohio State Penitentiary " there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry, whom William Sydney Porter.

In the 1970s, Hollings joined with fellow senators Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

* Rick Wakeman recorded the piece " Anne of Cleves " for his 1973 album, The Six Wives of Henry VIII

His perhaps most known records being his first three, The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1973 ), Journey to the Centre of the Earth ( 1974 ) and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ( 1975 ).

On 23 January 1973, he released The Six Wives of Henry VIII, an instrumental concept album based on his interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII, using keyboard instruments.

No other feature-length film would deal with all of Henry's wives until Henry VIII and his Six Wives in 1973.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

The majority opinion amongst historians is that of W. L. Warren ( 1973 ): " The Young Henry was the only one of his family who was popular in his own day.

* W. L. Warren, Henry II ( London, 1973 ) ISBN 0-520-03494-5

Lê Đức Thọ (; October 14, 1911 – October 13, 1990 ), born Phan Đình Khải in Ha Nam province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973, although he declined it.

While Xuan Thuy led the official negotiating team representing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the talks in Paris, Thọ and U. S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger since February 1970 engaged in secret talks that eventually led to a cease-fire in the Paris Peace Accords of January 23, 1973.

Tho and Henry Kissinger were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords.