* 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

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch ( 3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973 ) was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.

** Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Anton Gunn, American politician

* Anton Ackermann ( 1905 – 1973 ), German foreign minister

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow ( 1973 ) and the Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea collaborative work Illuminatus!

A close friend, Donald Kaul, lured Anton back to Iowa each year beginning in 1974 to ride his bicycle across the state in RAGBRAI, now the world's largest bicycle ride, which Kaul and John Karras started in 1973.

In 1973, he played Dr Astrov in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Bristol Old Vic, and had an uncredited role as Charles Calthrop in the film The Day of the Jackal.

Composers of Slovenian Lieder and art songs include Emil Adamič ( 1877 – 1936 ), Fran Gerbič ( 1840 – 1917 ), Alojz Geržinič ( 1915 – 2008 ), Benjamin Ipavec ( 1829 – 1908 ), Davorin Jenko ( 1835 – 1914 ), Anton Lajovic ( 1878 – 1960 ), Kamilo Mašek ( 1831 – 1859 ), Josip Pavčič ( 1870 – 1949 ), Zorko Prelovec ( 1887 – 1939 ), and Lucijan Marija Škerjanc ( 1900 – 1973 ).

In 1971 Anton Solomukha was admitted to the studio workshop of the academician T. Yablonska and in 1973 he obtained a diploma as a ‘ Monumentalist ’ painter.

* Anton Chaitkin, candidate in 1973 for Mayor of New York City, in 1974 for Governor of New York, in 1978 for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district

* Anton ( film ), a 1973 Norwegian film

He was fluent in German, Spanish, and French, and published successful biographies of Honoré de Balzac ( 1973 ), Ivan Turgenev ( 1977 ), and Anton Chekhov ( 1988 ), although he did not know Russian and had never visited the Soviet Union.

Anton Ackermann in Leipzig, May 1, 1950Anton Ackermann ( real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 December 1905 Thalheim, Saxony-4 May 1973 East Berlin ) was an East German politician.

There is a flashback to Greenwich Village in 1973, as 13-year-old Tommy ( Anton Yelchin ) is on the brink of becoming a man.

Graf staged several operas for the Salzburg Festival: Otello ( 1951, with Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting, 1952 with Mario Rossi conducting ; both times with Ramon Vinay as Otello ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1952, with Rudolf Moralt conducting, with Erich Kunz, George London, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Hilde Güden ; 1953 revival conducted by Furtwängler and Paul Schöffler replacing London ), a legendary Don Giovanni conducted by Furtwängler and designed by Clemens Holzmeister ( 1953, with Cesare Siepi, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Otto Edelmann, Walter Berry, Raffaele Arié, Erna Berger ; revival 1954, with Dezsö Ernster replacing Arié ; 1956 with Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting ), Gottlob Frick replacing Ernster, Leopold Simoneau replacing Dermota, Lisa Della Casa replacing Schwarzkopf, Fernando Corena replacing Edelmann, Rita Streich replacing Berger ) an equally legendary Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti and designed by Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955, cast included Gottlob Frick, Dermota, Schöffler, Kunz, Grümmer, Erika Köth, Peter Klein ; revival in 1956 with Berry replacing Kunz ); Elektra ( 1957, conducted by Mitropoulos, with Inge Borkh, Della Casa, Jean Madeira, Max Lorenz, Kurt Böhme ), Simon Boccanegra ( 1961, with Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting, with Tito Gobbi, Leyla Gencer, Giorgio Tozzi, Rolando Panerai ), and finally La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo by Emilio de ' Cavalieri ( the production premiered in 1968 and was shown each year until 1973 ).

* Il Gabbiano ( 1973 ), Anton Cechov