* 1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.

On 21 July 1973, in the so-called Lillehammer affair, a team of Mossad agents mistakenly killed Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan man unrelated to the Munich attack, in Lillehammer, Norway, after an informant mistakenly said Bouchiki was Ali Hassan Salameh, the head of Force 17 and a Black September operative.

Lillehammer was the site of the Lillehammer affair in 1973 where operatives of the Israeli Mossad shot and killed a Moroccan waiter they mistakenly thought was involved in the Munich Massacre.

The Lillehammer affair was the killing by Mossad agents of a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, in Lillehammer, Norway on July 21, 1973.

Some claim that Mossad warned Hussein about a Palestinian assassination attempt and that Hussein warned Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a clandestine face-to-face meeting about Egyptian and Syrian threats prior to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, though his warnings were unheeded by the Israeli leadership.

His brother, Ahmed Bouchiki, was gunned down in by Mossad agents in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer in July 1973 in the so-called Lillehammer affair.

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.

On July 14, 1973, the legendary White was killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment in his car for a concert with the New Kentucky Colonels.

* 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.

Instead, they killed the unionist José Ignacio Rucci in 1973 and declared war on Isabel Perón in 1974.

In April 1973, Colonel Héctor Irabarren, head of the 3rd Army Corps ' Intelligence Service, was killed when resisting a kidnap attempt by the Mariano Pojadas and Susana Lesgart Platoons of the Montoneros.

* 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100, 000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government ; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.

On November 6, 1973, in Oakland, California, two members of the SLA killed school superintendent Marcus Foster and badly wounded his deputy, Robert Blackburn, as the two men left an Oakland school board meeting.

Around 180 Uruguayans are known to have been killed during the 12-year military rule from 1973 – 1985.

Israel and the US have alleged also that Arafat was involved in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations, in which five diplomats and five others were killed.

In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, during which New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were killed and Shakur and Trooper James Harper were wounded.

On April 6, 1972, the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while attempting to serve a warrant on Bert Grissom ; Sheriff Douglas Batey and Deputies Glen Ray Archer and Troy Key were killed ; Sheriff Batey was replaced by William Thomas Pond as Sheriff, but Sheriff Pond was killed also on June 8, 1973, in an automobile accident.

The Nueva Canción originated in the 1960s and 1970s and spread in popularity until the 1973 Chilean coup d ' état, when most musicians were arrested, killed or exiled.

In Operation Spring of Youth, in April 1973, Israeli commandos killed three senior members of Black September in Beirut.

In reality, Hamidou, the chief guard, was killed in 1973 by a recently paroled prisoner, who spotted him drinking tea at a café outside the prison and shot him eight times.

* William Nolde ( 1929 – 1973 ), last American soldier killed in Vietnam

In 1973, two railroad locomotives collided in Cotulla, and three people were killed as a result.

Kim was almost killed in August 1973, when he was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo by KCIA agents in response to his criticism of President Park's yushin program, which granted near-dictatorial powers.

Herron was killed in September 1973 in an attack that remains unsolved.

* On 26 June 1973, 9 people were killed by an explosion of Cosmos-3M rocket, ready for launch.

In July 1973, in what became known as the Lillehammer affair, six Israeli operatives were arrested for the murder of Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent Moroccan waiter who was mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh.

The king had dispatched Moroccan troops to the Sinai front after the outbreak of Arab-Israeli War in October 1973.

The first Moroccan book was published in 1973 is still in print and was added to the James Beard Hall of Fame in 2008.

* 1973 – Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player

* Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani ( 1973 ), Moroccan economist and writer ;

El-Falaki was born August 12, 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Moroccan parents.

In September 1973 Ahmed Rami, a former Moroccan army officer, came to Sweden from Paris.

* Abdellah Taïa ( born 1973 ), Moroccan writer

After a Sahrawi demonstration in Tan-Tan in June 1972, a group of 20 participants including Ouali were detained and tortured by the Moroccan police, then he met with other groups of Sahrawis from inside Western Sahara, Algeria & Mauritania, and in 1973 founded with them the Polisario Front.

* Yasmine Lafitte ( born 1973 ), Moroccan and French pornographic actress

* May 20 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, that fought in Yom Kippur ( d. 1973 )

* Saudi dove in the oil slick – Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister of Saudi Arabia gives his personal account of the 1973 energy crisis.

Ahmed Best ( born August 19, 1973 ) is an American voice actor and musician.

Ahmed Best was born in New York City on August 19, 1973.

Rizwan Latif Ahmed ( born October 5, 1973 ), also known as Rizwan Ahmed, was born in Karachi and is a United Arab Emirates cricketer.

Among the activists benefited was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, who had also formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya in 1973, a charity recognized by Israel in 1979.

Ahmed was married to Gultekin, granddaughter of Principal Ibrahim Khan, in 1973.

* Ahmed Al-Azayda the Jordonian politacian, graduated from faculty of engineering in 1973.

He collaborated with many notable artists in both countries, arranging and playing on recordings by Mahmoud Ahmed, and appearing as a special guest with Duke Ellington and his band during a tour of Ethiopia in 1973.