* 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

In 1973, Bangs became the home to the " Terrellites " leader David Heze Terrell.

Dante Terrell Smith ( born December 11, 1973 ) is an American actor and MC, known by the stage names Mos Def () and Yasiin Bey ().

After the Stevie Wonder-produced " Bad Weather " failed to ignite much interest in 1973, both Terrell and Laurence departed from the group.

The younger sister of singer / actress Freda Payne, Scherrie Payne was the co-lead singer of The Supremes from 1973 to 1977, after Jean Terrell left the group in the fall of 1973.

Terrell Eldorado Owens (; born December 7, 1973 ) is an American football wide receiver for the National Football League ( NFL ) who is currently a free agent.

Despite the initial successes, toward the end of 1973, Terrell and Laurence decided that it would best for the Supremes to leave Motown and seek another record company.

* Terrell Owens ( born 1973 ), football player.

** Terrell Fletcher ( born 1973 ), American football player

** Terrell Owens ( born 1973 ), American football player

** Terrell Wade ( born 1973 ), American baseball player

He earned a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, MA, in 1973.

* Walter C. Allen, Hendersonia-The Music of Fletcher Henderson and his Musicians-a Bio-Discography ( 1973 )

* Night Watch ( 1973 film ), based on the Lucille Fletcher play

Lake died on July 7, 1973, of hepatitis and acute renal failure ( complications of her alcoholism ) in Burlington, Vermont, where her death was certified by Dr. Wareen Beeken at the Fletcher Allen Hospital, and where she was seen by many staff members during her nearly two-week stay.

U. S. TV stations produced series such as 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 1963 ); The Streets of San Francisco ( 1972 – 1977 ), starring Karl Malden and a young Michael Douglas ; Kojak ( 1973 – 1978 ), with Telly Savalas playing the lollipop-addicted police lieutenant ; Switch ( 1975 – 1978 ), with Eddie Albert playing the retired bunco cop to Robert Wagner's role as a former con man ; Charlie's Angels ( 1976 – 1981 ); Murder, She Wrote ( starting in 1984 ), about the adventures of Cabot Cove-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury.

The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World ( ISBN 0-13-798173-2 ) is a book by L. Fletcher Prouty, a former colonel in the US Air Force, first published in 1973.

The Secret Team, or ST, is a phrase coined by L. Fletcher Prouty in 1973, alleging a covert alliance between the United States ' military, intelligence, and private sectors to influence political decisions.

Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 horror film and the sequel to William Friedkin's 1973 film The Exorcist, directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by William Goodhart and starring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty and Kitty Winn.

* Frank Jack Fletcher ( 1885 – 1973 ), U. S. Navy Admiral, namesake of the USS Fletcher ( DD-992 )

* Cyril Fletcher ( 1973 – 1981 )

Frank Jack Fletcher ( April 29, 1885 – April 25, 1973 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II.

Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher died on April 25, 1973, four days before his 88th birthday at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

In the early 1970s, Fletcher returned to Kenya's Serengeti Plain, and Great Rift Valley for a year, an experience he recounted in The Winds of Mara, published in 1973.

D. C. Fletcher, SM, JCD ( 1973 – 1981 )

The associated single, " By The Devil ( I Was Tempted )", written by Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett, only reached # 26 and the Top 10 single " Randy " in June 1973 was their last success.

In 1973 Cult BBC TV series Porridge was filmed at the mountains of Bedlinog where the prison van breaks down after Fletcher Ronnie Barker urinated in the van's petrol tank.

* Jerry Fletcher used it in Florida during 1973