In the year 1973, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends (Jan 27), Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs (Feb 12), The Young and the Restless debuts on CBS (Mar 26), the first handheld mobile phone call is made (Apr 3), the World Trade Center complex in NYC is officially dedicated (Apr 4), Federal Express begins operations (Apr 17), the Sears Tower in Seattle becomes for a while the world’s tallest building (May 3), the ATM is patented (Jun 4), an 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends (Jul 30), the term Stockholm Syndrome is coined (Aug 23), Carl XVI Gustaf becomes King of Sweden (Sep 15), the Sydney Opera House is dedicated (Oct 20), the Bosporus Bridge is completed, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history (Oct 30) - and all these fine people were born:

1973-0101 Gabe Fazio* actor - USA 1973-0107 Jonna Tervomaa* singer/songwriter - Forssa, Finland 1973-0110 Jakob Cedergren* Danish actor - Lund, Sweden 1973-0113 Juan Diego Flórez* opera singer - Lima, Peru 1973-0113 Nikolai Khabibulin* hockey goalie/OG - Sverdlovsk, Russia, Soviet Union 1973-0113 Daniel Lewis Lee* white supremacist/convicted killer - Yukon, OK USA (2020/47) 1973-0119 Nash Edgerton* stuntman/ director - Blacktown, NSW, Australia 1973-0120 1973-0122 Abigail Tucker* singer-songwriter/ actress - Australia 1973-0126 Sólveig Arnarsdóttir* actress - Iceland 1973-0131 Portia de Rossi DeGeneres* actress/model - Horsham, Victoria, Australia 1973-0202 Aleksander Tammert* discus thrower - Tartu, Estonia, Soviet Union 1973-0204 Oscar de la Hoya* boxer/OG - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0207 Irina Björklund* actress/singer/ wife of Peter Franzen - Stockholm, Sweden 1973-0210 1973-0216 William Abadie* actor - Saint-Raphaël, Var, France 1973-0216 Cathy Freeman* sprinter/active with Australian indigenous affairs - Mackay, QLD Australia 1973-0219 1973-0220 Ron Yuan* actor - New York City, NY USA 1973-0226 Maria Veitola* journalist/television host - Eno, Finland 1973-0228 Eric Lindros* hockey player (NHL 100)/philanthorpist/with Swedish great-grandfather - London, ON Canada 1973-0301 1973-0303 Matthew Marsden* British-American actor/singer/producer - West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England 1973-0308 David Wilcock* scientist/writer - USA 1973-0313 Ólafur Darri Ólafsson* Icelandic-American actor/ producer/ screenwriter/to Iceland at age 4 - Connecticut, USA 1973-0315 1973-0319 Charlotte Bellamy* actress (Emmerdale) - Dover, Kent, England 1973-0319 Simmone Jade Mackinnon* actress - Mount Isa, QLD Australia 1973-0319 Sergey Makarov* athlete (javelin)/OB - Podolsk, Russia, Soviet Union 1973-0320 1973-0324 Jim Parsons* actor/ producer - Houston, TX USA 1973-0326 T. R. Knight* actor/m to Patrick B. Leahy - Minneapolis, MN USA 1973-0326 Larry Page* founder of Google - Lancing, MI USA 1973-0331 1973-0401 Rachel Maddow* television host/commentator - Castro Valley, CA USA 1973-0402 Roselyn Sanchez* actress - San Juan, Puerto Rico 1973-0403 Adam Scott* actor/producer/ podcaster - Santa Cruz, CA USA 1973-0405 1973-0408 Christof May* theologian/ priest - HIntermeilingen, Hesse, West Germany (2022/49) 1973-0409 Luis Roberto Guzmán* actor - Bayamón, Puerto Rico 1973-0414 Adrian Brody* actor - New York, NY USA 1973-0418 Haile Gebreselassie* long-distance runner/OG - Asella, Ethiopia 1973-0418 Juhan Ulfsak* actor - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union 1973-0419 1973-0420 Julie Powell* blogger/ writer - Austin, TX USA (2022/49) 1973-0424 Simo Valakari* football player/manager - Helsinki, Finland 1973-0429 Fares Fares* Swedish-Lebanese actor/director/producer - Beirut, Lebanon 1973-0429 Rúnar Freyr Gíslason* actor/voice actor/radio host - Iceland 1973-0430 1973-0501 Diana Hayden* Miss World 1997/actress - Hyderabad, India 1973-0503 Brad Martin* country music singer-songwriter - Greenfield, OH USA (2022/48) 1973-0509 Jasmina Douieb* actress - Brussels, Belgium 1973-0510 Joshua Eagle* tennis player/coach/m to Barbara Schett - Toowoomba, QLD Australia 1973-0511 James Haven* actor/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0516 Tori Spelling* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0521 Susanna Heikki* singer - Kolari, Finland 1973-0524 Ville Peltonen* hockey player/OS - Vantaa, Finland 1973-0531 1973-0601 1973-0604 Róbert Ingi Douglas* film director/ screenwriter/father from Northern Ireland - Reykjavik, Iceland 1973-0607 Henrik Rafaelson* actor - Kristiansand, Norway 1973-0610 Minna Haapkylä* actress - Helsinki, Finland 1973-0612 Riikka Sallinen* (b Nieminen) baseball player/hockey player - Jyväskylä, Finland 1973-0614 Sami Kapanen* hockey player/OB - Vantaa, Finland 1973-0614 Joel Souza* filmmaker/ screenwriter - Fremont, CA USA 1973-0615 Tore André Flo* football player/coach - Flo, Stryn, Norway 1973-0615 Neil Patrick Harris* actor/ writer/producer - Albuquerque, NM USA 1973-0616 Amanda Byram* model/television presenter - Dublin, Ireland 1973-0616 Shane Reed* aquathlete/ coach/triathlete - Palmerston North, New Zealand (2022/49) 1973-0619 Chelah Horsdal* actress - Vancouver, BC Canada 1973-0621 Zuzana Čaputová* politician/ activist/P - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1973-0621 Juliette Lewis* actress/ singer - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0624 Jere Lehtinen* hockey player/OS - Espoo, Finland 1973-0625 Sunetra Sarker* actress - Liverpool, Merseyside, England 1973-0630 1973-0701 1973-0703 Patrick Wilson* actor/singer - Norfolk, VA USA 1973-0705 1973-0708 Sebastian Maniscalco* stand-up comedian/actor - Arlington Heights, IL USA 1973-0708 Kathleen Robertson* actress/writer - Hamilton, ON Canada 1973-0709 Enrique Murciano* actor - Miami, FL USA 1973-0709 Mika Pohjonen* singer/opera singer - Hollola, Finland 1973-0710 1973-0713 James Hooton* actor (Emmerdale) - Carlton, Nottinghamshire, England 1973-0715 Brian Austin Green* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0720 Omar Epps* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1973-0720 Peter Forsberg* hockey player (NHL 100)/3GC - Örnsköldsvik, Sweden 1973-0720 Roberto Orci* Mexican-American film and television screenwriter/producer - Mexico City, Mexico (2025/51) 1973-0720 Anni Sinnemäki* politician/ poet - Helsinki, Finland 1973-0723 Kathryn Hahn* actress/ comedian/producer - Westchester , IL USA 1973-0723 Minttu Mustakallio* actress/w Greek father  - Ylivieska, Finland 1973-0723 Paavo Westerberg* actor/ screenwriter/ director - Helsinki, Finland 1973-0725 David Denman* actor - Newport Beach, CA USA 1973-0727 Carly Dixon* athlete (judoka) - Liverpool, NSW Australia 1973-0728 Clara Ng* (b Regina Juana) writer - Jakarta, Indonesia 1973-0728 Paul A. Young* chocolatier/patissier - Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England 1973-0729 Stephen Dorff* actor - Atlanta, GA USA 1973-0730 Markus Näslund* hockey player - Örnsköldsvik, Sweden 1973-0731 Mike Yeo* hockey player/coach - Scarborough, ON Canada 1973-0801 Kris Holden-Ried* actor - Pickering, ON Canada 1973-0803 Michael Ealy* (b Brown) actor - Silver Spring, MD USA 1973-0806 Vera Farmiga* actress - Clifton, NJ USA 1973-0807 Kimmo Rintanen* hockey player - Rauma, Finland 1973-0810 Javier Zanetti* football player - Buenos Aires, Argentina 1973-0812 Marcy Borders* legal assistant/911 WTC survivor/“The Dust Lady” - Bayonne, NJ USA (2015/42) 1973-0814 Tony Gustavsson* football player/manager - Sundsvall, Sweden 1973-0814 Jamie Sives* actor - Lochend, Edinburgh, Scotland 1973-0815 1973-0816 Clint Freeman* archer/WG - Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 1973-0820 1973-0821 Sergey Brin* founder of Google - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union 1973-0822 Maria Jungner* (b Elo) television announcer/ reporter - Helsinki, Finland (2024/50) 1973-0823 Chelsi Smith* beauty pageant titleholder/actress/singer - Redwood City, CA USA (2018/45) 1973-0824 Dave Chapelle* stand-up comedian/screenwriter - Washington, D.C. USA 1973-0824 Carmine Giovinazzo* actor/writer/painter - Staten Island, NY USA 1973-0831 Scott Niedermayer* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/3GC - Edmonton, AB Canada 1973-0902 Nicholas Pinnock* actor - Balham, London, England 1973-0905 Rose McGowan* American actress - Florence, Italy 1973-0906 Hiski Haukkala* civil servant/political analyst - Pori, Finland 1973-0907 Shannon Elizabeth* model/ actress/poker player - Houston, TX USA 1973-0907 Alex Kurtzman* screenwriter/ director/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA 1973-0909 1973-0910 Tom Vlachos* police officer/Survivor S28 Contestant - Jersey City, NJ USA 1973-0912 Maximiliano Hernández* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1973-0912 Paul Walker* actor - Glendale, CA USA (2013/40) 1973-0913 Fabio Cannavaro* football player/WG/manager - Naples, Italy 1973-0914 Andrew Lincoln* actor - London, England 1973-0915 Daniel Westling* personal trainer/Prince - Örebro, Sweden 1973-0917 Ada Choi* 蔡少芬 actress - Hong Kong 1973-0918 James Marsden* actor - Stillwater, OK USA 1973-0920 1973-0926 Marie Bonnevie* actress - Västerås, Sweden 1973-0927 Indira Varma* actress/ narrator/w Indian father - England 1973-0930 1973-1001 1973-1006 Ioan Gruffudd* actor - Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Wales 1973-1012 Ville Keskilä* actor - Raisio, Finland 1973-1014 George Floyd* his wrongful death led to international Black Lives Matter protests - Fayetteville, NC USA (2020/46) 1973-1018 James Foley* journalist/ video reporter/war correspondent - Evanston, IL USA (2014/40) 1973-1019 Pekka Himanen* philosopher - Finland 1973-1020 Esko Eerikäinen* Finnish show dancer/radio host/to Finland at age 10 - Bogotá, Columbia 1973-1021 Sasha Roiz* Israeli-Canadian actor - Tel Aviv, Israel 1973-1022 Carmen Ejogo* actress - Kensington, London, England 1973-1026 Seth MacFarlane* actor/ animator/filmmaker (Family Guy) - Kent, CT USA 1973-1026 Laura Malmivaara* actress - Kajaani, Finland 1973-1030 Adam Copeland* wrestler/ actor - Orangeville, ON Canada 1973-1101 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan* Miss World 1994/actress - Mangalore, Karnataka, India 1973-1103 Johnny Harris* actor/ screenwriter/director - Lambeth, London, England 1973-1104 Steven Ogg* actor/ voice actor - Calgary, AB Canada 1973-1105 Danniella Westbrook* model/ actress - Walthamstow, London, England 1973-1109 Maija Vilkkumaa* singer/ songwriter - Helsinki, Finland 1973-1110 1973-1112 Janina Fry* (b Frostell) beauty pageant/ model/singer - Helsinki, Finland 1973-1112 Radha Mitchell* actress - Melbourne, VIC Australia 1973-1112 Ethan Zohn* football player/Survivor S3 Contestant - Lexington, MA USA 1973-1117 Leslie Bibb* actress - Bismarck, ND USA 1973-1120 1973-1126 Peter Facinelli* Italian-American actor - New York City, NY USA 1973-1126 Jan Lundell* hockey goalie/coach/father of Anton Lundell - Helsinki, Finland 1973-1129 Ryan Giggs* (b Wilson) football player/coach/g-father from Sierra Leone - Cardiff, Wales 1973-1129 Fredrik Norrena* hockey goalie/OS/coach - Pietarsaari, Finland 1973-1130 Andrew Scarborough* actor - Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 1973-1201 1973-1202 Monica Seles* Serbian-American tennis player - Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia 1973-1203 Samuel Wurzelbacher* aka Joe the Plumber, activist/commentator - Toledo, OH USA (2023/49) 1973-1205 1973-1206 Nikos Christodoulides* politician/ diplomat/P - Geroskipou, Cyprus 1973-1210 Jeff Blashill* hockey coach - Detroit, MI USA 1973-1212 Teuvo Moilanen* football goalie - Oulu, Finland 1973-1213 Héctor Jiménez* actor/producer - Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico 1973-1214 Boris Henry* athlete (javelin) - Völklingen, West Germany 1973-1215 Gísli Örn Garðarsson* gymnast/ actor/director - Reykjavik, Iceland 1973-1217 Konstadinos Gatsioudis* athlete (javelin) - Didymoteicho, Greece 1973-1217 Paula Radcliffe* long-distance runner/WG - Davenham, Cheshire, England 1973-1220 Tripp Tracy* hockey goalie/color commentator - Detroit, MI USA 1973-1221 Marko Yli-Hannuksela** wrestler/OS - Ilmajoki, Finland 1973-1224 Matt Passmore* actor - Brisbane, QLD Australia 1973-1226 Katherine Creag* Filipino-American television journalist - Manila, Philippines (2021/47) 1973-1228 Alex Dimitriades* actor/ DJ - Sydney, NSW Australia 1973-1228 Seth Meyers* actor/ writer/television host - Evanston, IL USA 1973-1229 1973-1230 Jason Behr* actor - Minneapolis, MN USA 1973-1230 Ato Boldon* sprinter/OS/sports commentator - Port of Spain, Trinidad 1973-1231 1973-0 1973-0 1973-0 Updated 2025-0510 Helsinki- Stockholm Search for another year here