* 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 – 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

On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc was a D. J.

* Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. ( 1973 ) – Three-term mayor of Pittsburgh, PA, 1994 – 2006

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973.

* Logical Investigations, 1973 second revised editions 1913, Findlay, J. N., trans.

* Experience and Judgement, 1973, Churchill, J. S., and Ameriks, K., translators.

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

* Hoffner, Jr., H. A ( 1973 ) “ The Hittites and Hurrians ,” in D. J. Wiseman Peoples of the Old Testament Times, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

* Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns ( 1973 ).

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Dissatisfied with Hans J. Eysenck's work, Milton Rokeach developed his own two-axis model of political values in 1973, basing this on the ideas of freedom and equality, which he described in his book, The Nature of Human Values.

* 1973 – J. D.

While the 1972 team faced no competition that possessed a better record than 8-6 in the regular season, the 1973 team played a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys ( all playoff teams ), plus two games against a resurgent Buffalo Bills squad that featured 2, 000-yard rusher O. J.

Dutton, 1966 New Hyde Park, N. Y: University Books, 1973 Secaucus, N. J .: Citadel Press, 2003 Mineola, N. Y .: Dover, with new title The Werewolf in Lore and Legend ).

* June 25 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )

* January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, professor and author of The Lord of the Rings ( d. 1973 )

In 1945, Yale University created the J. Willard Gibbs Professorship in Theoretical Chemistry, held until 1973 by Lars Onsager, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

* J. G. Farrell: Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 Booker Prize Winner ) and The Singapore Grip

" During the years 1945 to 1973, editorship of Nature changed three times, first in 1945 to A. J. V.

* Wolfe, J. C., DeFleur, M. L. & Slocum, W. L. ( 1973 ).

* Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Consideration of the Rosary by J. Neville Ward ( Doubleday, 1973 ); revised as Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: Meditations on the Rosary ( Seabury Classics, 2005 )-an ecumenical Methodist minister's book on the Rosary.

* " Sucker ", a 1973 song by The J. B .' s from the album Doing It to Death