* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( d. 1726 )

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

* 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician ( d. 1754 )

* 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1742 )

* 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., American historian ( b. 1673 )

* 1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer ( b. 1623 )

* 1625 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician ( d. 1673 )

* 1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer ( d. 1673 )

* John Gordon ( 1673 – 1675 )

Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

The second Khoikoi-Dutch war ( 1673 – 1677 ) was a cattle raid.

* 1622 – Molière, French playwright ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.

* 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer ( d. 1747 )

* 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist ( d. 1673 )

* 1617 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble ( d. 1744 )

* 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

* 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army.

* 1606 – Jeanne Mance, French settler of New France ( d. 1673 )

** Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1673 )

* Ahmed III-( 1673 – 1736 ), Ottoman sultan, Greek mother ( Emetullah Rabia Gülnûş Sultan ), originally named Evemia, who was the daughter of a Greek Cretan priest

Leo III was canonized as a saint in 1673 by Pope Clement X.

The new rank of Lieutenant-Admiral-General was created especially for him in February 1673, when the new stadtholder William III of Orange became Admiral-General.

Her parents were James Louis Sobieski ( 1667 – 1737 ), the eldest son of King John III, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg ( 1673 – 1722 ).

In 1673 he was again engaged in the Low Countries, and in 1674 he fought his last great battle, the Battle of Seneffe, against the Prince of Orange ( afterwards William III of England ).

In 1673, Louis XIV of France annexed all territory of the principality to the royal domain, as part of the war actions against the stadtholder William III of Orange — who later became King William III of England and King William II of Scotland.

His campaigning was not yet at an end, for in 1668 he was appointed first Field-Marshal of the States Army and in 1673 he was charged by stadtholder William III to command the forces in Friesland and Groningen, and to defend the eastern frontier of the Provinces, again against Van Galen.

*** Johann ( es ) „ Hans “ Bach III ( 1604 – 1673 )-the so-called Erfurt Line

The Turks suffered two decisive defeats at Khotyn in the 17th century, at the hands of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: in 1621 by Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and again in 1673 by Jan III Sobieski ( see: Battles below ).

In the late 17th century, the weakened Republic of Both Nations under King Jan III Sobieski in alliance with the forces of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, dealt the crushing defeats to the Ottoman Empire ; Jerzy Trubecki was the Polish wojewoda of Kiev Voivodeship, 1673.

In 1673 he became librarian to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

He continued under the patronage of the Medici, when together with the sculptor Ercole Ferrata, Ferri the painter led the Medici Academy in Rome, established in 1673 by Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany.

The kings of the Ancien Régime and the July Monarchy used the title Empereur de France in diplomatic correspondence and treaties with the Ottoman emperor from at least 1673 onwards.

On 11 November 1673, during the Polish – Ottoman War ( 1672 – 76 ), Sobieski added yet another major victory to his list, this time defeating the Turks in the battle of Chocim and capturing the fortress located there.

In 1669 – 1673 Mazepa served under Hetman Petro Doroshenko as a squadron commander at the Hetman Guard, particularly during his 1672 campaign in Halychyna, and as a chancellor on diplomatic missions to Poland, Crimea, and Ottoman Empire.

However, Chortkiv would later decline in the second half of the 17th century during the Polish-Turkish Wars when the town was taken over by Ottoman Empire, whose rule lasted from 1673 to 1683.

Alexander Mavrocordatos (; 1636 – 1709 ) was a member of the Greek Mavrocordatos family, a doctor of philosophy and medicine of the University of Bologna, and dragoman to Sultan Mehmed IV in 1673 — notably employed in negotiations with the Habsburg Monarchy during the Great Turkish War.

On 25 June 1673, while preparing to storm the city, captain-lieutenant Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as the comte d ' Artagnan, was killed by a musket shot outside Tongerse Poort.

* 1603 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer ( d. 1723 )

Other recusant families, or branches thereof, include ( d ) Ainscough, Anne ( of Frickley ), Arden ( of Longcroft ), Arundell, Bedingfeld, Berkeley ( of Spetchley ), Blount, Blundell, Clifford ( of Chudleigh ; since 1673 ), Coates, Constable, Constable-Maxwell, Errington, Eyre, Eyston, Fairfax ( of Gilling ), Feilding, Fenwick, Fermor ( of Tusmore ), Fitzherbert ( of Swynnerton ), Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Fortescue-Turville, Gerard ( of Bryn ), Gillibrand, Gillow, Glover, Hesketh, Holden, Holman, Hornyold, Huddleston, Jerningham, Kerr ( Scotland ), De Lisle / de Lisle, Mattingly, Mockler-Barrett, Payne, Petre, Perkins ( of Ufton Court ), Riddell, Scarisbrick, Scrope ( of Bolton ), Smythe, Stonor, Stourton, Talbot, Tempest ( of Broughton ), Throckmorton, Towneley, de Trafford, Tichbourne, Trappes-Lomax ( Trappes of Nidd ), Tresham ( of Northamptonshire ), Vavasour ( of Hazlewood ), Ward, Waterton ( of Walton ), Weld, and Weld-Blundell.

* January 11 – Mary Carleton, impostor ( d. 1673 )

** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ( d. 1673 )

** Henry Herbert, English official ( d. 1673 )

* November 16 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery ( d. 1673 )

* January 6 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman ( d. 1673 )

* May 31 – Michael of Poland ( d. 1673 )

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )