1973

**1973** (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events 
* January 1 – United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the *European Economic Community*, now known as the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
* January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.
* January 22 – Supreme Court of the United States rules on *Roe v. Wade*.
* January 22 – George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier for the heavyweight world boxing championship.
* January 23 – Eruption in Heimaey begins.
* January 23 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
* January 27 – U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. See Paris Peace Accords.
* April 3 – The World Trade Center opens in New York City.
* September 11 – Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile, in a coup, in which President Salvador Allende dies.
* September 15 – Ascension to the throne of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
* The rock group KISS form in New York City.
* Homosexuality is no longer considered a mental disorder.
*Japans first video game, Elepong is produced

## Births 
* January 9 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
* January 22 – Rogério Ceni, brazilian football player
* February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian Aborigine athlete
* March 22 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
* April 6 – Donnie Edwards, former American football linebacker, philanthropist, television personality, actor, and executive producer
* April 8 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
* April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor
* May 24 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
* June 10 – Faith Evans, American singer
* June 26 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer
* July 15 – John Dolmayan, Armenian-American drummer (System of a Down)
* July 23 – Monica Lewinsky, White House member of staff under Bill Clinton
* July 30 – Markus Näslund, Swedish hockey player
* August 7 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand disc jockey and television presenter
* September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
* September 14 – Nas, American rapper
* September 18 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African businessman
* October 22 – Ichiro Suzuki, Professional baseball player for the Seattle Mariners
* October 28 – Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
* October 30 – Adam Copeland,  Canadian professional wrestler
* October 31 &ndash; Beverly Lynne, American actress
* November 6 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
* November 17 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer
* November 30 – Kate Fischer, Australian actress and model
* December 3 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress

## Deaths 
### January 
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* January 20 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924)
* January 22 – Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)

### February 
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* February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (b. 1907)

### March 
### April 
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* April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
* April 21 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
* April 25 – Frank Jack Fletcher, US Navy admiral during World War II (b. 1885)
* April 25 – Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)

### May 
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* May 6 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor (b. 1893)
* May 29 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor and singer (b. 1929)

### June 
### July 
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* July 2 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
* July 7 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
* July 7 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
* June 13 – Viriato Clemente da Cruz, Angolan poet and politician (b. 1928)
* July 20 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
*July 25 – Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)

### August 
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* August 1 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
* August 4 – Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (b. 1904)
* August 6 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
* August 12  Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881)
* August 12  Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898)
* August 31 – John Ford, American movie director (b. 1894)

### September 
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* September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer (b. 1892)
* September 11 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
* September 15 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer (b. 1932)
* September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
* September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
* September 29 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet (b. 1907)

### October 
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* October 2 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (b. 1897)
* October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
* October 25 - Robert Scholl, German politician (b. 1891)
* October 25 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)

### November 
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* December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
* December 20 – Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
* December 25 – İsmet İnönü, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)

## Movies released 
* *American Graffiti*
* *Enter the Dragon*
* *Magnum Force*
* *Last Tango in Paris*
* *Papilon*
* *The Exorcist*
* *The Sting*

## Hit songs 
* "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Roberta Flack
* "Radar Love" – Golden Earring
* "Smoke on the Water" – Deep Purple
* "You're So Vain" – Carly Simon
* "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" – Jim Croce
* "Crocodile Rock" – Elton John
* "Delta Dawn" – Helen Reddy
* "D'yer Mak'er" – Led Zeppelin
* "Frankenstein" – The Edgar Winter Group
* "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" – Elton John
* "Half Breed" – Cher
* "Higher Ground" – Stevie Wonder
* "Keep On Truckin' " – Eddie Kendricks
* "Kodachrome" – Paul Simon
* "Let's Get It On" – Marvin Gaye
* "Live and Let Die" – Paul McCartney and Wings
* "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" – ABBA
* "Loves Me Like a Rock" – Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
* "Me and Mrs. Jones" – Billy Paul
* "Midnight Train to Georgia" – Gladys Knight
* "Morning After"- Maureen McGovern
* "My Love" – Paul McCartney and Wings
* "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" – Vicki Lawrence
* "Over the Hills and Far Away" – Led Zeppelin
* "Photograph" – Ringo Starr
* "Ramblin' Man" – Allman Brothers Band
* "Ring Ring" – ABBA
* "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" – Elton John
* "Superstition" – Stevie Wonder
* "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" – Paul Simon
* "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
* "Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando & Dawn
* "Top of the World" – Carpenters
* "Touch Me in the Morning" – Diana Ross
* "Why Me" – Kris Kristofferson
* "Will It Go Around in Circles" – Billy Preston