* 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

* 1973 – Nikolai Valuev, Russian boxer

A minor planet 2123 Vltava discovered in 1973 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after the river.

In 1973 sculptor Nikolai Tomsky designed a new sarcophagus.

Five years after the first excimer laser was invented in 1970 by Nikolai Basov, and two years after Northrop Corporation Research and Technology Center's team leader, Dr. Bhaumik announced the successful demonstration of the world's first efficient excimer laser at the Denver, Colorado meeting of the Optical Society of America in May 1973, Hart along with Naval Research Laboratory colleague, Stuart Searles, ( also confer Charles Brau, James J. Ewing ) invented ( and patented ) an excimer laser improvement ; subsequently, excimer lasers found extensive use as the type of laser that made possible the immensely popular Lasik corrective eye surgery, and are utilized today in semiconductor manufacturing.

* 1973 Nikolai Bogolubov

* Nikolai Khabibulin ( born 1973 ), a NHL ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers

* Nikolai Valuev ( born 1973 ), a professional boxer and former heavyweight champion

Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev ( ; born 21 August 1973 ) is a retired Russian professional boxer and former two-time WBA heavyweight champion.

* Nikolai Valuev ( born 1973 ), Russian boxer

* Nikolai Nikolaevich Andreev ( 1968 – 1973 )

The paper was published in 1973 in Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( in Russian ).

* 1973 – Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player

* 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer

* 1973 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater

* English into Russian ( 1973 ) for the Apollo-Soyuz project

Vernadsky's son George Vernadsky ( 1887 – 1973 ) emigrated to the United States where he published numerous books on medieval Russian history, medieval Ukrainian history, and modern Russian history.

** Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer ( d. 1973 )

Moe is often engaged in shady or illegal activities at his tavern, including smuggling pandas and orcas, imprisoning Hans Moleman under the floor of the bar, hosting Russian roulette games, operating an unlicensed casino, serving liquor without a license ( the liquor license he had was from 1973, signed by Moe himself, and only valid in Rhode Island ), running a speakeasy during Springfield's brief flirtation with prohibition, performing unlicensed surgery, and housing Africanized bees.

* Oksana Andrusina-Mert ( born 1973 ), Turkish female discus thrower of Russian origin

* Alexey Lyapunov ( 1911 – 1973 ), Russian mathematician

* In the 1973 Russian science-fiction movie Moscow-Cassiopeia, a " Surprise Room " operated in the same way as the holodeck in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* Zvi Nishri ( Orloff ) ( 1878 – 1973 ), Russian / Palestinian / Israeli pioneer in physical education

M. Green, in Russian Literature Triquarterly ; 7 ( 1973 ), p. 119-51.

Barbara Schurz ( Russian transliteration: Барбара Шурц ) was born 1973 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia.

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet bombed the presidential palace La Moneda, overthrowing the democratic, Russian backed president Salvador Allende in Chile.

* Anastasia Zavorotnyuk ( born 1973 ), Russian actress

Alexei Valeryevich Yashin (; born November 5, 1973 ) is a Russian professional ice hockey player.

Moreover, between 1972 and 1973, the USSR deleted the Chinese and Manchu place-names — Iman ( 伊曼, Yiman ), Tetyukhe ( from 野猪河, yĕzhūhé ), and Suchan — from the Soviet Far East map, and replaced them with the Russian place-names Dalnerechensk, Dalnegorsk, and Partizansk.

A Russian article on the Zorb mentions a similar device having debuted in 1973.

* Dmitri Vlasov ( born 1973 ), Russian footballer

* 1973 Russische Lieder (" Russian Songs ", Russian lyrics, released in West Germany )