* 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 – Monica Goodling, American lawyer

* 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

Due primarily to the efforts of Vera Kholmeier of Waterloo and Helmut Macke of Porta Westfalica, it came about as a result of genealogical research, which concluded that perhaps two-thirds of Monroe County's German population could trace their ancestry back to this region of northern Germany. View over Porta Westfalica, Germany, Waterloo's Sister CityPorta Westfalica itself came about in 1973 as a conglomeration of 15 villages into a city of over 40, 000.

Vera Panova ( 1905 – 1973 ) was a Soviet era writer.

In 1972, Vera Katz was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Democrat representing Portland and Multnomah County for the 1973 session.

* Laura Lee Miller, 1973 President Vera Wang Licensing

These deaths, and the inherent despairs which triggered them, haunted and afflicted Harvey — destroying two longtime love-relationships, first with Doreen Ringer-Ross who lived with Harvey from 1973 to 1978, and photographer-filmmaker Vera Anderson, who married Harvey shortly after Ann's suicide in ' 78, and divorced him in 1984.

* Melodies of Vera Quarter ( 1973 )

Vera Ann Farmiga (; born August 6, 1973 ) is an American actress and director.

* 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