* 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 – Francis Healy, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Travis )

Raymond Frank, the sheriff of Travis County from 1973 – 1980, determined that the county's law enforcement budget was better spent on more serious offenses, and skinny-dipping activities were generally ignored as long as no other laws were being broken.

The Tucson Toros had been affiliated with the Chicago White Sox ( 1969 – 72 ), the Oakland Athletics ( 1973 – 76 ), the Texas Rangers ( 1977 – 1979 ), the Houston Astros ( 1980 – 96 ), and the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1997 only, with one Diamondbacks prospect, Travis Lee, playing with them by special arrangement ).

1973: While under Betsy's care in the hospital for minor surgery, Walter Travis is murdered with an overdose of Demerol.

* Travis Lutter ( born 1973 ), American mixed martial arts fighter

( 1973 ), Travis ' adventures finally come to an end in Britannia Hospital which sees Mick as a muckraking reporter investigating the bizarre activities of Professor Millar, played by Graham Crowden, whom he had had a run in with in O Lucky Man.

( 1973 ) continuing the story of the Mick Travis character from their earlier film ..

Piaget, Lip, Postface by Michel Rocard, Lutter Stock, 1973.

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1973 – Brittany Andrews, American porn actress

* 1973 – Molly Henneberg, American journalist

* 1973 – Eric Medlen, American drag racer ( d. 2007 )

* 1973 – Jay Meetze, American conductor and producer

* 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player

* 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress

* 1973 – Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder

* 1973 – Michael Ealy, American actor

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

* 1973 – Senta Moses, American actress