* 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

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

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.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

* Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux ( 22 December 1949 – 23 December 1973 )

* 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist ( d. 1973 )

The “ Videoviews ” series consists of Sharps ’ dialogues with Bruce Nauman ( 1970 ), Joseph Beuys ( 1972 ), Vito Acconci ( 1973 ), Chris Burden ( 1973 ), Lowell Darling ( 1974 ), and Dennis Oppenheim ( 1974 ).

* September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist ( d. 1973 )

Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's 1973 film, Scenes from a Marriage, including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen's " most three-dimensional film to date " with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the " contemporary equivalent of ...

Ronald Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM ( born July 22, 1941 in Drummond, New Brunswick, Canada ) is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U. S. Triple Crown in 1973.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

* Charles W. Hackensmith, Biography of Joseph Neef, Educator in the Ohio Valley, 1809 – 1854, Carlton Press, New York, 1973.

The Joseph Purdy Homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

* Joseph Fitchett and McAdams Deford, A River Called Rebel, 1973, Saudi Aramco World

Designed by Joseph Urban, Mar-A-Lago was willed in 1973 to the U. S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.

Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena ( née Fritsche, August 1892 – November 1993 ), and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite ( September 1893 – May 1973 ), a dentist.

With the merger of Loyola University and Marymount College in 1973, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange joined the Society of Jesus and the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary as one of the sponsoring religious communities of Loyola Marymount University.

Frank Joseph Christian ( September 3, 1887 – November 27, 1973 ) was an early jazz trumpeter.

Michael Joseph " Mickey Joe " Harte ( born 1973 ), now simply known as Mickey Harte, is an Irish singer-songwriter.

At Yale Law School, she taught seminars on crime and the family: this led to a transatlantic collaboration with Joseph Goldstein and Albert Solnit on children and the law, published as Beyond the Best Interests of the Child ( 1973 ).

Among its most notable professors is Joseph Ratzinger — now Benedict XVI — who was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Theology during from 1972 to 1973.

* Joseph B. Casagrande ( 1973 )

* Herman Joseph Muller, Modern Concept of Nature ( SUNY Press, 1973 ).

* Herman Joseph Muller, Man's Future Birthright ( SUNY Press, 1973 ).