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Year (''' MCMLXXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian Calendar .
The year 1973 has been designated the '' Year Of The Ox '' in the Chinese Zodiac .
- April 2 - The LexisNexis computerized legal research service begins.
- April 3 - The first handheld cellular phone call made by Martin Cooper, who conceived the phone, in New York City.
- April 4 - The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- April 6 - '' Pioneer 11 '' is launched on a mission to study the Solar System .
- April 6 - Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees becomes the first Designated Hitter in Major League Baseball .
- April 7 - ''Tu te reconnaîtras'' by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1973 for Luxembourg .
- April 10 - Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam , a Sunni Muslim.
- April 11 - The British House Of Commons voted against restoring Capital Punishment by a margin of 142 votes.
- April 12 - The Labour Party wins control of the Greater London Council .
- April 17 - The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 is officially formed.
- April 17 - Federal Express officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport . On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, NY, to Miami, Fla.
- April 20 - An Indian Pacific train en route to Perth, derails near Broken Hill, New South Wales . The train destroyed a quarter mile of track when it left the rails.
- April 28 - Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill , are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford on board a coaster carrying five tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army .
- May 1 - An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stopped work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.
- May 3 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.
- May 5 - Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest .
- May 5 - Sunderland AFC defeats Leeds United A.F.C. in the FA Cup final.
- May 5 - Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby .
- May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota , ends with the surrender of the militants.
- May 10 - The Polisario Front ,a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Western Sahara, is formed.
- May 14 - '' Skylab '', the United States ' first Space Station , is launched.
- May 14 - The British House Of Commons votes to abolish Capital Punishment in Northern Ireland .
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- , British Minister Of Agriculture, Fisheries And Food , announces that Royal Navy Frigate s will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland .
- May 19 - Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes .
- May 22 - Lord Lambton resigned from the British government over a ' Call Girl ' scandal.
- May 22 - Ethernet is invented by Robert Metcalfe .
- May 24 - Earl Jellicoe , Lord Privy Seal and Leader Of The House Of Lords in Britain, resigned over a separate prostitution scandal.
- May 25 - '' Skylab 2 '' ( Pete Conrad , Paul Weitz , Joseph Kerwin ) is launched on a mission to repair the '' Skylab '' space station.
- May 27 - By virtue of the non-retroactivity of Soviet copyright laws, all works published before this date are Public Domain . This applies worldwide.
- June 1 - The Greek military junta abolishes the Monarchy and proclaims a Republic .
- June 3 - A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
- June 4 - A Patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel , Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- June 9 - Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes , becoming the first Triple Crown Of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
- June 10 - The grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome .
- June 16 - U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev .
- June 20 - The Ezeiza Massacre occurs in Buenos Aires , Argentina . Snipers shoot on left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
- June 22 - W. Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") retires from the Federal Bureau Of Investigation .
- June 23 - A house fire in Kingston Upon Hull , England , which kills a 6-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next 7 years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale .
- June 24 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
- June 25 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President Of Ireland .
- counsel John Dean begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
- June 26 - At Plesetsk Cosmodrome , 9 persons are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- June 28 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly , which will lead to power-sharing between Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- June 30 - Very long total Solar Eclipse . During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.
- July 1 - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.
- July 2 - The United States Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.
- July 5 - The Isle Of Man Post begins to issue its own Postage Stamp s.
- July 5 - The catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona , following a fire that broke out as Propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
- July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth Of Nations .
- July 11 - Varig Flight 820 disaster near Orly , France - 123 killed.
- in St. Louis, Missouri.
- aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- July 20 - France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll , over the protests of Australia and New Zealand .
- July 20 - Actor and martial artist Bruce Lee dies of brain swelling in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong .
- July 21 - The Philippines receives its second Miss Universe title, with Margarita Moran as the winner.
- July 23 - The Avianca Building in Bogotá , Colombia suffers a serious fire.
- July 25 - The Soviet '' Mars 5 '' space probe is launched.
- July 28 - The Summer Jam At Watkins Glen , a massive rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead , The Allman Brothers Band and The Band , attracts over 600,000 music fans.
- July 28 - '' Skylab 3 '' ( Owen Garriott , Jack Lousma , Alan Bean ) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard '' Skylab ''.
- July 29 - Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix .
- July 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.
- July 31 - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly .
- July 31 - A Delta Air Lines Flight 173 DC9-31 aircraft lands short of Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed, 1 of the passengers dying several months after the accident.
- September 3 - The British Trade Union Congress expelled 20 members for registering under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 .
- September 11 - Chile 's democratically-elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende Commits Suicide during the coup in the presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a U.S. -backed Military Junta that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.
- September 15 - Gustav VI Adolf Of Sweden dies. His grandson, Carl XVI Gustav , becomes king.
- September 18 - The two German Republics, the Federal Republic Of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations .
- defeats Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, at the Astrodome in Houston , Texas .
- September 22 - Henry Kissinger , United States National Security Advisor , starts his term as United States Secretary Of State .
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- September 28 - ITT is bombed in New York City by Leftist terrorists protesting the restoration of the Chilean Constitution ordered by the Chilean judicial and legislative branches against the Allende dictatorship.
- - Israel i conflict begins, as Egypt ian and Syria n forces attack Israel on Yom Kippur .
- October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland , pleads no contest to charges of Income Tax evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of Maryland . He is fined $10,000 and put on 3 years' probation.
- October 14 - Student Revolt In Bangkok, Thailand
- October 17 - The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the 1973 Energy Crisis .
- orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox . Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus . Solicitor General Robert Bork , third in line at the Department Of Justice , then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
- October 20 - The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
- October 26 - The Yom Kippur War ends.
- October 26 - United Nations recognize the independence of Guinea-Bissau .
- October 27 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 Kilogram chondrite type Meteorite , strikes Earth in Fremont County, Colorado .
- October 30 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul , Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
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- appoints Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- launches '' Mariner 10 '' toward Mercury (on March 29 , 1974 it becomes the first Space Probe to reach that planet).
- November 7 - The Congress Of The United States 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 divorce in 1992).
- launches '' Skylab 4 '' ( Gerald Carr , William Pogue , Edward Gibson ) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an 84-day mission.
- November 16 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline .
- , U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- November 17 - A student uprising occurs against the military Regime in Athens , Greece .
- November 21 - U.S. President Richard Nixon 's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate .
- November 25 - Greek dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military Coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis .
- November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President Of The United States .
- November 28 - The United States Senate votes 92-3 to des-confirm (sicsic) Richard Nixon as President Of The United States .
- November 29 - More than 100 people perish in a department store fire in Japan .
- January 1 - Danny Lloyd , American actor
- January 6 - Scott Ferguson , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 7 - Jonna Tervomaa , Finnish singer
- January 8 - Sean Paul , Jamaican singer
- January 11 - Joanna Brodzik , Polish actress
- January 11 - Rahul Dravid , Indian cricketer
- January 13 - Nikolai Khabibulin , Russian hockey player
- January 13 - Gloria Yip , Hong Kong actress
- January 14 - Giancarlo Fisichella , Italian race car driver
- January 15 - Tomáš Galásek , Czech football player
- January 16 - Josie Davis , American actress
- 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 19 - Ann-Kristin Aarønes , Norwegian footballer
- January 21 - Chris Kilmore , DJ of the American alternative rock band Incubus
- January 28 - Mark Lewis , British Mountaineer, First Welsh Man to climb Mt Vinson highest Mountain in Antarctica
- January 29 - Jason Schmidt , baseball player
- January 30 - Jalen Rose , American basketball player
- February 1 - Nick Mitchell , American wrestler.
- February 2 - Aleksander Tammert , Estonian discus thrower
- February 3 - Ilana Sod , Mexican journalist
- February 4 - Oscar De La Hoya , American boxer
- February 7 - Kate Thornton , TV presenter
- February 8 - Sonia Deol , presenter
- 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 18 - Claude Makélélé , French footballer
- February 20 - Kimberley Davies , Australian actress
- February 22 - Shota Arveladze , Georgian football player
- February 22 - Gustavo Assis-Brasil , Brazilian guitarist
- February 24 - Jordan Jovtchev , Bulgarian gymnast
- February 24 - Richard Clapp , Canadian baseball player
- February 26 - Marshall Faulk , American football player
- February 26 - Jenny Thompson , American swimmer
- February 28 - Eric Lindros , Canadian hockey player
- March 1 - Ryan Peake , Canadian musician ( Nickelback )
- March 1 - Chris Webber , American basketball player
- March 4 - Len Wiseman , American director and screenwriter
- March 4 - Summer Cummings , American actress
- March 5 - Ryan Franklin , baseball pitcher
- March 9 - Aaron Boone , baseball player
- March 10 - John LeCompt , American musician
- March 13 - Edgar Davids , Dutch footballer
- March 17 - Caroline Corr , Irish musician ( The Corrs )
- March 19 - Magnus Hedman , Swedish footballer
- March 23 - Jason Kidd , American basketball player
- March 24 - Jacek Bąk , Polish footballer
- March 26 - Theodore Raymond Knight , American actor
- March 29 - Marc Overmars , Dutch footballer
- March 30 - Adam Goldstein , American DJ
- 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 11 - Ryan Shuck , American singer, songwriter and musician ( Sexart )
- April 14 - Adrien Brody , an Academy Award -winning American Actor
- April 16 - Bonnie Pink , Japanese singer
- April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar , Indian cricketer
- April 25 - Fredrik Larzon , Swedish musician ( Millencolin )
- April 28 - Elisabeth Röhm , American actress
- April 28 - Melissa Fahn , American actress
- April 30 - Jeff Timmons , American singer
- April 30 - Ajai Mehra , Indian Social Activist
- May 1 - Oliver Neuville , German footballer
- May 1 - Paul Burke , Irish rugby player
- May 3 - Michael Reiziger , Dutch footballer
- May 4 - Guillermo Barros Schelotto , Argentine footballer
- May 7 - Paolo Savoldelli , Italian professional road racing cyclist
- May 10 - Rüştü Reçber , Turkish football goalkeeper
- May 12 - Forbes March , American actor
- May 14 - Natalie Appleton , Canadian singer
- May 16 - Jason Acuna , American skateboarder and actor also known as ''Wee-Man''
- May 16 - Tori Spelling , American actress
- May 17 - Josh Homme , American musician
- May 17 - Steve Barakatt , Canadian composer/producer/pianist/singer
- May 19 - Dario Franchitti , Scottish race car driver
- May 21 - Noel Fielding , British comedian
- May 23 - Jacopo Gianninoto , Italian musician
- May 24 - Dermot O'Leary , British TV star
- May 25 - Demetri Martin , American comedian
- May 25 - Jean-Pierre Canlis , American glass artist
- May 30 - Leigh Francis , British comedian
- May 31 - Dominique Van Roost , Belgian tennis player
- 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 14 - Ceca Raznatovic , Serbian singer
- June 15 - Neil Patrick Harris , American actor
- June 15 - Greg Vaughan , American actor
- June 19 - Yuko Nakazawa , Japanese singer
- June 20 - Chino Moreno , American musician
- June 21 - Juliette Lewis , American actress
- June 22 - Carson Daly , American talk show host
- June 24 - Alexander Beyer , German actor
- June 26 - Gretchen Wilson , American singer
- June 26 - Paweł Małaszyński , Polish actor
- June 28 - Adrian Annus , Hungarian athlete
- June 30 - Chan Ho Park , Korean Major League Baseball player
- July 3 - Emma Cunniffe , British actress
- July 9 - Kelly Holcomb , American football player
- July 11 - Konstantinos Kenteris , Greek athlete
- July 14 - Halil Mutlu , Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
- July 15 - John Dolmayan , Lebanese-born drummer ( System Of A Down )
- July 16 - Stefano Garzelli , Italian professional road racing cyclist
- July 17 - Eric Moulds , American football player
- July 17 - Liam Kyle Sullivan , American comedian
- July 20 - Peter Forsberg , Swedish hockey player
- July 20 - HRH Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway
- July 22 - Daniel Jones , Australian musician and record producer
- July 23 - Nomar Garciaparra , American baseball player
- July 23 - Fran Healy , British singer ( Travis )
- July 23 - Monica Lewinsky , White House intern
- July 25 - Dani Filth , Israeli- born musician ( Cradle Of Filth )
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale , English actress
- July 27 - Gorden Tallis , Australian rugby league player
- July 28 - Steve Staios , Canadian ice hockey player
- August 1 - Tempestt Bledsoe , American actress
- August 5 - Danny Slavin , American actor
- August 6 - Asia Carrera , American actress
- August 8 - Senta Moses , American actress
- August 8 - Scott Stapp , American singer ( Creed )
- August 12 - Richard Reid , English terrorist
- August 12 - Grey DeLisle , American voice actress/American singer
- August 14 - Kieren Perkins , Australian swimmer
- August 16 - Damian Jackson , baseball player
- August 19 - Lilian Garcia , American singer and ring announcer ( WWE )
- August 19 - HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit Of Norway
- August 20 - Todd Helton , American baseball player
- August 21 - Steve McKenna , hockey player
- August 21 - Nikolai Valuev , Russian heavyweight boxing champion
- August 22 - Howie Dorough , American singer ( Backstreet Boys )
- August 24 - Inge De Bruijn , Dutch swimmer
- August 24 - Carmine Giovinazzo , American actor
- August 25 - Dave Chappelle , American actor, comedian
- August 28 - DJ Assault , American musician
- August 28 - Kirby Morrow , Canadian voice actor
- September 1 - J.D. Fortune , Canadian singer and new frontman of INXS
- September 4 - Jason David Frank , American actor and martial artist
- September 5 - Rose McGowan , American actress
- September 6 - Carlo Cudicini , Italian footballer
- September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth , American actress
- September 9 - Kazuhisa Ishii , Japanese baseball player
- September 12 - Darren Campbell , British athlete
- September 12 - Rupa Sen , Indian Social Activist
- September 13 - Fabio Cannavaro , Italian footballer
- September 14 - Nas , American rapper
- September 15 - Julie Cox , English actress
- September 17 - Anastacia , American singer
- September 17 - Ada Choi , Hong Kong actress
- September 18 - Paul Brousseau , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 18 - Mark Shuttleworth , South African entrepreneur
- September 18 - Ami Onuki , famous Japanese singer, part of Puffy Amiyumi
- September 19 - José Azevedo , Portuguese cyclist
- September 22 - Craig McRae , Australian footballer
- September 25 - Bridgette Wilson-Sampras , American actress
- September 29 - Joe Hulbig , American ice hockey player
- October 2 - Proof , American rapper (d. 2006 )
- October 3 - Neve Campbell , Canadian actress
- October 4 - Chris Parks , American professional wrestler
- October 5 - Annabelle Chvostek , Canadian singer/songwriter/singer
- October 6 - Ioan Gruffudd , Welsh actor
- October 9 - Terry Balsamo , American guitarist
- October 10 - Mario López , American actor
- October 11 - Takeshi Kaneshiro , Taiwanese /Japanese actor
- October 13 - Nanako Matsushima , Japanese actress
- October 13 - Matt Hughes , American Mixed Martial Arts fighter
- October 19 - Joaquin Gage , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 21 - Beverly Turner , British TV and radio presenter
- October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki , Japanese baseball player
- October 24 - Levi Leipheimer , American professional cyclist
- October 26 - Seth MacFarlane , American animator and voice actor
- October 29 - Robert Pirès , French football player
- October 30 - Silvia Corzo , Colombian newsreader
- October 30 - Edge , Canadian professional wrestler, two time WWE Champ
- November 1 - Aishwarya Rai , Indian actress
- November 3 - Mick Thomson , lead guitarist for Slipknot
- November 3 - Sticky Fingaz , American rapper
- November 5 - Johnny Damon , baseball player
- November 7 - Ryan J. Downey , musician/TV reporter
- November 9 - Nick Lachey , American singer
- November 10 - Jacqui Abbott , English singer ( The Beautiful South )
- November 11 - Jason White , musician touring member with Green Day
- 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 28 - Rob Conway , American professional wrestler
- November 29 - Ryan Giggs , Welsh footballer
- November 29 - Raphael Smith , South African screenwriter and songwriter
- November 30 - Jason Reso , Canadian professional wrestler
- December 2 - Monica Seles , Yugoslavian-born tennis player
- December 2 - Jan Ullrich , German professional road bicycle racer
- December 3 - Holly Marie Combs , American actress
- December 4 - Tyra Banks , American supermodel and talk show host
- December 4 - Steven Menzies , Australian Rugby League player
- December 7 - Terrell Owens , American football player
- December 8 - Corey Taylor , vocalist for Slipknot and Stone Sour
- December 14 - Thuy Trang , Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001 )
- December 14 - Tomasz Radzinski , Canadian footballer
- December 15 - Surya Bonaly , French figure skater
- December 16 - Scott Storch , American hip-hop producer
- December 17 - Paula Radcliffe , British athlete
- December 18 - Darryl Brown , Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
- December 21 - Sarah Nixey , English singer
- December 25 - Chris Harris , American professional wrestler
- December 27 - Dee Ferris , British painter
- December 27 - Kristoffer Zegers , Dutch composer
- December 29 - Theo Epstein , baseball general manager
- December 29 - Tony Burnett , Guitarist
- December 30 - Jason Behr , American actor
- December 30 - Ato Boldon , West Indian athlete
- December 31 - Nikolay Tsiskaridze , Russian dancer
- 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 19 - Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (b. 1892 )
- February 23 - Dickinson W. Richards , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1895 )
- March 3 - Vera Panova , Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905 )
- 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 )
- March 26 - George Sisler , American baseball player (b. 1893 )
- 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 )
- April 30 - Václav Renč , Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911 )
- May 2 - Alan Carney , American actor and comedian (b. 1909 )
- May 11 - Lex Barker , American actor (b. 1919 )
- May 14 - Jean Gebser , German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905 )
- May 18 - Jeannette Rankin , first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880 )
- June 4 - Arna Bontemps , Harlem Renaissance writer (b. 1902 )
- 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 - Robert Smithson , American artist (b. 1938 )
- July 20 - Bruce Lee , Chinese 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 1 - Walter Ulbricht , East German Statesman (b. 1893 )
- August 6 - James Beck , British actor (b. 1929 )
- 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 )
- August 31 - John Ford , American film director (b. 1895 )
- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien , British writer (b. 1892 )
- September 11 - Salvador Allende , President Of Chile (b. 1908 )
- September 15 - King Gustav VI Adolf Of Sweden (b. 1882 )
- 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 26 - Ralph Earnhardt , American race car driver (b. 1928 )
- September 29 - W. H. Auden , English poet (b. 1907 )
- September 30 - Peter Pitseolak , Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902 )
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