* 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 poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973 and again in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, featuring Miles O ' Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight.

In 1973, Paddy Moloney ( of The Chieftains ) and Sean Potts released Tin Whistles, which helped to popularise the tin whistle in particular, and Irish music in general.

Quinn also had two more children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn ( born February 7, 1973 ), a New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn ( born December 30, 1976 ), an event producer in Los Angeles, CA.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.

In 1973 the band signed to RCA and released their first single, Coast To Coast, written by Sean Tyla and Nick Garvey, though Tyla is not credited on the track, because he was trying to untangle himself from a previous publishing deal.

* 1973 Sean Mac Gearailt

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Sean David Beatty, Viscount Borodale ( b. 1973 ).

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year, but she allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery, the second of her three husbands, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1973.

* Sean Beatty, Viscount Borodale ( b. 1973 ), heir to the Earl Beatty

As a result, in 1973 Radio Clyde began broadcasting and unlike the two existing stations, both in London, was an immediate success helped in part by strong financial backers that included Sean Connery and Jackie Stewart.

Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die ( 1973 ) and The Man With The Golden Gun ( 1974 ) and his role alongside Sean Connery in The Untouchables ( 1987 ).

* Stephen Ashworth Barcroft: The international civil servant: the League of Nations career of Sean Lester, 1929-1947 ; Dublin 1973

Sean Nelson ( born June 12, 1973 ) is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist, notable as the frontman for the alternative rock group Harvey Danger.

In the 1970s she lived with the set designer Sean Kenny, until his death in 1973.

* Sean Ryan ( rugby league ) ( born 1973 ), Australian former rugby league player

* On Broadway, Ms. Lortel produced Sean O ' Casey's I Knock at the Door at the Belasco Theatre ( 1957 ), was associate producer of the acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire at the St. James Theatre in 1973, and, after its premiere at the White Barn Theatre, produced Lanford Wilson's Angels Fall at the Longacre Theatre where it was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Play ( 1983 ).