* 1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.

* 1973 – Lee Westwood, British golfer

The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).

British Museum Press ( BMP ) is the publishing business of British Museum Company ( BMCo ), a registered charity established in 1973 to encompass all commercial activity undertaken.

The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

British Railways closed the line to mainline passenger trains in 1973, but re-opened as a heritage line and has run as one ever since.

* 1973 – Dee Ferris, British painter

* 1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2, 000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".

Gibraltar is represented in the European Union, having been the only British Overseas Territory to have joined the European Economic Community under the British Treaty of Accession ( 1973 ).

* 1973 – Lucy Davis, British actress

* Geoffrey Toone in the 1973 British television production The Death of Adolf Hitler

( 1973 ) a Pilgrim's Progress inspired road movie ; and Britannia Hospital ( 1982 ), a fantasia taking stylistic influence from the populist wing of British cinema represented by Hammer horror films and Carry On comedies.

* 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy ( b. 1907 )

* 1973 – Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner

* 1973 – Nell McAndrew, British model

* 1973 – Nemone, British athlete and broadcaster

The British poet Ted Hughes titled a 1973 collection of poems Prometheus On His Crag.

* Chadwick, N. K ( 1973 ) Studies in the Early British Church, Archon Books.

Stanley Smith Stevens ( November 4, 1906 – January 18, 1973 ) was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and is credited with the introduction of Stevens ' power law.

The word Ebonics was originally coined in 1973 by African American social psychologist Robert Williams in a discussion with linguist Ernie Smith ( as well as other language scholars and researchers ) that took place in a conference on " Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child ", held in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1973 – Torey Hayden, BA, Biology / Chemistry, child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and author.

The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis, conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan in 1973.

John Ridley Stroop ( March 21, 1897 – September 1, 1973 ) was an American psychologist.

* since 1974: School psychologist ( 1973 – 1974 ) and lecturer at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

George Hoben Estabrooks ( 1885 – 1973 ) was a Canadian-American psychologist.

* 1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

* Glenn Strange, who played Sam, the Bartender in CBS's Gunsmoke from 1961 until his death in 1973, grew up in Brown County near Cross Cut.

He played a substantial role as John Crow in Santee ( 1973 ), starring Glenn Ford.

After Glenn Hughes ' departure in June 1973, Galley and Holland kept the band together with constantly varying members until 1979, when Holland went on to join Judas Priest.

Glenn Hughes left the band after the 1973 tour to replace Roger Glover in Deep Purple.

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* The Stranger ( 1973 film ) ( aka Stranded in Space ), a science-fiction TV pilot starring Glenn Corbett

In 1973, Platt raised the money to produce one of the very first independent color motion pictures shot entirely on videotape: Santee, starring Glenn Ford.

Glenn Strange ( August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973 ) was an American actor who mostly appeared in Western films.

She moved to New Zealand after marrying Glenn Turner, a prominent New Zealand cricket player, in July 1973.

In 1973, he was in another TV movie, a pilot for a proposed series called " The Stranger ," a science fiction film starring Glenn Corbett as an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with Jagger as a leader of a corrupt deceptive government known as " The Perfect Order ".

* Santee ( film ), a 1973 western starring Glenn Ford

He became head coach at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan in 1973 and earned Regional Class A Coach of the Year honors in 1975 following an 8 – 1 season.

* Glenn Archer ( born 1973 ), Australian rules footballer

* Glenn Ryle, a staff announcer from 1954 through the late 80s, was also a children's show host, taking the on-air name " Skipper Ryle " until 1973.

Glenn Barr, a Vanguard Assemblyman and a UDA leader, described himself in 1973 as ' an Ulster nationalist '.