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MCMLXXIII ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Monday .
decision in Washington, DC stage a silent demonstration before the
Supreme Court .]]
- April 2 - Launch of LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- April 4 - World Trade Center officially opens in New York with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- April 6 - Launch of Pioneer 11 Spacecraft .
- April 10 - Israeli commando raid on Beirut, in which three leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement were assassinated. The army's inaction brought the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim leader from Beirut.
- April 17 - German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 formed officially
- , acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29 , 1974 it became the first Space Probe to reach that planet).
- November 7 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon 's veto of the War Powers Resolution , which limits presidential power to wage War without congressional approval.
- November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a United States -sponsored cease-fire accord.
- November 14 - In the United Kingdom , Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips , in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
- launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three Astronaut s from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
- November 16 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline .
- , US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- November 17 - Student uprising against the military Regime in Athens , Greece .
- November 21 - President Nixon 's attorney, J. Fred Bushardt, revealed the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate .
- November 25 - Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in military Coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis .
- November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President Of The United States (on December 6 , the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
- January 1 - Danny Lloyd , American actor
- January 8 - Sean Paul , Jamaican singer
- January 11 - Rahul Dravid , Indian cricketer
- January 13 - Nikolai Khabibulin , Russian hockey player
- January 14 - Giancarlo Fisichella , Italian race car driver
- January 15 - Tomás Galásek , Czech football player
- January 17 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco , Mexican football player
- January 18 - Crispian Mills , British musician ( The Jeevas and Kula Shaker )
- January 19 - Karen Lancaume , French actress (d. 2005 )
- January 29 - Jason Schmidt , baseball player
- February 4 - Oscar De La Hoya , American boxer
- February 8 - Sonia Deol , Presenter Network East , BBC Asian Network & programme narrator
- February 9 - Svetlana Boginskaya , Soviet gymnast
- February 11 - Varg Vikernes , Norwegian musician ( Burzum )
- February 14 - Steve McNair , American football player
- February 15 - Amy Van Dyken , American swimmer
- February 16 - Cathy Freeman , Australian athlete
- February 20 - Kimberley Davies , Australian actress
- February 22 - Shota Arveladze , Georgian football player
- February 22 - Gustavo Assis-Brasil , Brazilian guitarist
- February 23 - Howard Jones , English musician
- February 24 - Jordan Jovtchev , Bulgarian gymnast
- February 26 - Marshall Faulk , American football player
- February 26 - Jenny Thompson , American swimmer
- February 28 - Eric Lindros , Canadian hockey player
- April 1 - Stephen Fleming , New Zealand Cricket Captains
- April 2 - Roselyn Sanchez , Puerto Rican actress
- April 3 - Matthew Ferguson , Canadian actor
- April 4 - David Blaine , American magician
- April 5 - Pharrell Williams , American musician and producer ( The Neptunes )
- April 6 - Rie Miyazawa , Japanese actress and singer
- April 10 - Roberto Carlos , Brazilian football player
- April 11 - Jennifer Esposito , American actress
- April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar , Indian cricketer
- April 28 - Elisabeth Röhm , American actress
- April 30 - Jeff Timmons , American singer
- June 1 - Fred Deburghgraeve , Belgian swimmer
- June 1 - Heidi Klum , German model
- June 1 - Derek Lowe , baseball player
- June 8 - Lexa Doig , Canadian actress
- June 9 - Tedy Bruschi , American football player
- June 9 - Iain Lee , British comedian and radio and television presenter
- June 10 - Faith Evans , American singer
- June 12 - Darryl White , Australian footballer
- June 13 - Sam Adams , American football player
- June 22 - Carson Daly , American talk show host
- June 26 - Gretchen Wilson , American singer
- June 28 - Adrian Annus , Hungarian athlete
- June 30 - Chan Ho Park , Korean Major League Baseball player
- July 4 - Gackt , Japanese singer
- July 9 - Kelly Holcomb , American football player
- July 11 - Konstantinos Kenteris , Greek athlete
- July 15 - John Dolmayan , Lebanese-born drummer ( System Of A Down )
- July 17 - Eric Moulds , American football player
- July 20 - Peter Forsberg , Swedish hockey player
- July 20 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince Of Norway
- July 23 - Nomar Garciaparra , baseball star
- July 23 - Fran Healy , British singer ( Travis )
- July 23 - Monica Lewinsky , White House intern
- July 23 - David Mitchell , British comedian
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale , English actress
- August 1 - Tempestt Bledsoe , American actress
- August 6 - Asia Carrera , American actress
- August 8 - Scott Stapp , American singer ( Creed )
- August 12 - Richard Reid , English terrorist
- August 14 - Kieren Perkins , Australian swimmer
- August 19 - Mette-Marit Tjessem-Høiby , Crown Princess of Norway
- August 20 - Todd Helton , baseball player
- August 22 - Howie Dorough , American singer, member of Backstreet Boys
- August 24 - Inge De Bruijn , Dutch swimmer
- October 3 - Neve Campbell , Canadian actress
- October 10 - Mario López , American actor
- October 13 - Nanako Matsushima , Japanese actress
- October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki , Japanese baseball player
- October 24 - Levi Leipheimer , American professional cyclist
- October 26 - Seth MacFarlane , American voice actor
- October 29 - Robert Pires , French football player
- October 29 - Gabrielle Union , American actress
- October 30 - Silvia Corzo , Colombian newsreader
- October 30 - Adam Copeland , Canadian Professional Wrestler
- November 1 - Aishwarya Rai , Indian actress
- November 5 - Johnny Damon , baseball player
- November 7 - Ryan J. Downey , Musician/ TV Reporter
- November 9 - Nick Lachey , American singer
- November 12 - Martin M. Weiss , American author
- November 14 - Lawyer Milloy , American football player
- November 14 - Dana Snyder , American voice actor
- November 26 - Peter Facinelli , American actor
- November 28 - Jade Puget , American guitarist ( AFI )
- November 29 - Ryan Giggs , Welsh footballer
- November 29 - Raphael Smith , South African screenwriter and songwriter
- November 30 - Christian Cage , American professional wrestler
- January 19 - Max Adrian , Northern Irish actor (b. 1903 )
- January 22 - Lyndon Johnson , President Of The United States (b. 1908 )
- January 23 - Kid Ory , American musician (b. 1886 )
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish , American actor (b. 1897 )
- January 26 - Edward G. Robinson , American actor (b. 1893 )
- January 31 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895 )
- February 11 - Hans D Jensen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907 )
- February 15 - Wally Cox , American actor (b. 1924 )
- February 23 - Dickinson W. Richards , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1895 )
- February 19 - Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (b. 1892 )
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892 )
- March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan , American musician ( Grateful Dead ) (b. 1945 )
- March 14 - Rafael Godoy , Colombian composer (b. 1907 )
- March 14 - Chic Young , American cartoonist (b. 1901 )
- March 26 - Noel Coward , English composer and playwright (b. 1899 )
- April 8 - Pablo Picasso , Spanish artist (b. 1881 )
- April 16 - Istvan Kertesz , Hungarian conductor (b. 1929 )
- April 19 - Hans Kelsen , Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881 )
- April 21 - Arthur Fadden , thirteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1894 )
- April 26 - Irene Ryan , American actress (b. 1902 )
- May 2 - Alan Carney , American actor and comedian (b. 1909 )
- May 11 - Lex Barker , American actor (b. 1919 )
- May 12 - Art Pollard, American race car driver(b. 1927 )
- May 14 - Jean Gebser , German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905 )
- May 18 - Jeannette Rankin , first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880 )
- June 18 - Roger Delgado , English actor (b. 1918 )
- July 2 - Swede Savage , American race car driver (b. 1946 )
- July 6 - Otto Klemperer , German-born conductor (b. 1885 )
- July 7 - Veronica Lake , American actress (b. 1922 )
- July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
- July 20 - Bruce Lee , American martial artist and actor (b. 1940 )
- July 29 - Roger Williamson , British race car driver (b. 1948 )
- August 1 - Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer (b. 1882 )
- August 6 - Fulgencio Batista , Cuban dictator (b. 1901 )
- August 11 - Karl Ziegler , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898 )
- August 12 - Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
- August 16 - Selman Waksman , Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1888 )
- August 17 - Conrad Aiken , American writer (b. 1889 )
- August 17 - Jean Barraqué , French composer (b. 1928 )
- August 17 - Paul Williams , American singer (The Temptations ) (b. 1939 )
- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien , British writer (b. 1892 )
- September 11 - Salvador Allende , President Of Chile (b. 1908 )
- September 19 - Gram Parsons , American musician (b. 1946 )
- September 20 - Jim Croce , American songwriter (b. 1943 )
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904 )
- September 29 - W. H. Auden , English poet (b. 1907 )
- October 2 - Paavo Nurmi , Finnish runner (b. 1897 )
- October 17 - Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian writer (b. 1926 )
- October 22 - Pablo Casals , Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876 )
- November 11 - David "Stringbean" Akeman , American banjo player (b. 1915 )
- November 11 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895 )
- November 27 - Frank Christian , American musician (b. 1887 )
- December 1 - David Ben-Gurion , Prime Minister Of Israel (b. 1886 )
- December 3 - Emile Christian , American musician (b. 1895 )
- December 20 - Bobby Darin , American singer (b. 1936 )
- December 20 - Luis Carrero Blanco , first minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1907 )
- December 25 - Gabriel Voisin , French aviation pioneer (b. 1880 )
- December 26 - Harold B. Lee , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899 )
