* 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 Tremont Avenue Cruisewear Fashion Show " ( 1973 ), Jerry Livingston, Mark David

Other rock fanzines of this period include Flash, 1972, edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine ( 1973 – 1993 ) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam, written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland, beginning in 1974, and in the mid-1970s, Back Door Man and denim delinquent.

* 1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby footballer

* 1973 – Mark Knight, English sound designer

* 1973 – Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter ( Third Day )

* 1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player

* 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

* 1973 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African-English businessman, founded Canonical Ltd.

** Mark Essex, American mass murderer ( d. 1973 )

In the summer of 1973, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman resurrected the show as Match Game ' 73 for CBS, with Rayburn returning as host and Olson returning as announcer.

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.

Murder Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and Paul Darrow as Mr. Tallboy.

He found inspiration in the paintings of the abstract expressionists, and throughout the 1970s wrote a number of pieces around twenty minutes in length, including Rothko Chapel ( 1971, written for the building of the same name, which houses paintings by Mark Rothko ) and For Frank O ' Hara ( 1973 ).

Members of the 1973 state tournament Mayer team were: John Hoese and Randy Hoese, bat boys ; Martin Rolf, Brad Wroge, Jim Henning, Harlan Baumann, Kevin Florek, Dale Hoeft, Bob Vinkemeier, Bill Stein, Ron Lehrke, Dave Lenz, Lowell Heldt, Dave Hoese, Darryl Gieselmann, Mark Meschke, Courtney Meyer, Mark Wabbe ; Bob Schafer, statistician ; and Ed Hoese, manager.

The musical films Tom Sawyer ( 1973 ) and Huckleberry Finn ( 1974 ), both based on novels by Mark Twain, were partially shot here.

Trevor Ravenscroft's 1973 book, The Spear of Destiny ( as well as a later book, The Mark of the Beast ), claims that Adolf Hitler started World War II in order to capture the spear, with which he was obsessed.

* Princess Anne, Princess Royal ( until her marriage with Mark Phillips in 1973 ( divorced 1992 ) when she assumed his surname ; her surname has subsequently changed again on the occasion of her marriage with Timothy Laurence in 1992 )

* Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past, Stanford University Press, 1973, ISBN 0-8047-0876-2, pp. 298 – 315.

In 1973, the Moon Mullins radio program was issued on this LP produced by George Garabedian for Mark 56 Records.

W. Mark Felt an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director, acted on conscience to provide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information that resulted in the Watergate scandal.

The Mark III was never sold in the US, although it was available in Canada until 1973.

" Illustrated by Mark Fredrickson, the cover was a double parody, also referencing the January 1973 issue of National Lampoon which depicted a gun being held to a real dog's head and the line " If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog.

The second, in January 1973, was a harrowing day-long siege, as former Black Panther Mark Essex used the roof of the hotel as a sniper's perch, killing three New Orleans Police Department officers, the hotel's general manager and assistant general manager, and a couple fromVirginia on a belated honeymoon, while also wounding police officers, firefighers and civilians.