* 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 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor

* 1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer

* 1944 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist

* 1973 – Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Amaral )

* 1973 – Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star

In 1973, the Polisario Front ( Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro ) formed to combat the Spanish occupation of the territory.

* 1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor ( d. 1973 )

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (, 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 ), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

** Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman ( d. 1973 )

* October 25 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter ( d. 1973 )

More independent but clearly to the left of the political spectrum are the Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo ( CIDOB ) founded in 1973 ; and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ) established in 1999 by Diego Hidalgo and main driving force behind projects such as the Club de Madrid, a group of democratic former heads of state and government, or the Foreign Policy Spanish Edition.

* Anna and the Wolves, 1973 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura

The union of the Rivers Ciguela and Záncara permits the replenishment of the waters in the Tablas de Daimiel National Park, a wetland that was designated for protection by the Spanish government in 1973 ( situated in the municipalities of Villarrubia de los Ojos and Daimiel, in the province of Ciudad Real ).

* Juan Luis Mora ( born 1973 ), Spanish retired football goalkeeper

* La Main coupée ( 1946, Denoël ) / Novel / ( in French ) / English ( Lice, 1973 ), Spanish ( 1980 )

O ' Hare was decommissioned on October 31, 1973 and transferred on loan and then later sold to the Spanish Navy.

The Polisario Front was formally constituted on May 10, 1973 with the express intention of militarily forcing an end to Spanish colonization.

Category: 1973 establishments in Spanish Sahara

In 1973, the Spanish cult film director Jesus Franco directed two low-budget " Maciste films " for French producers: Maciste contre la Reine des Amazones ( Maciste vs the Queen of the Amazons ) and Les exploits érotiques de Maciste dans l ' Atlantide ( The Erotic Exploits of Maciste in Atlantis ).

In 1973, the Spanish cult film director Jesus Franco directed two low-budget " Maciste films " for French producers: Maciste contre la Reine des Amazones ( Maciste vs the Queen of the Amazons ) and Les exploits érotiques de Maciste dans l ' Atlantide ( The Erotic Exploits of Maciste in Atlantis ).

His nickname " Sunshine " came from a short stint ( 1973 ) as a disc jockey for San Juan-based WBMJ-AM, Puerto Rico's first rock and roll station ( another WBMJ disc jockey at the time, Raymond Broussard, better known as Moonshadow, later became the co-host of El Vacilón de la Mañana, a very popular Spanish language morning radio talk show in New York City ).

* October 25-Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor ( d. 1973 )

Tres Hombres ( Spanish for " three men ") is the third album by American blues rock band ZZ Top and was released in 1973.