1973 in the United Kingdom

none October 2020 January 2013 1973 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1973 British Grand Prix 1973 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1973 in British television 1973 in British music 1973 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 Events from the year 1973 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Edward Heath (Conservative) Events January 1 January – The United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2459000/2459167.stm 1973: Britain joins the EEC BBC News 11 February 2008 1 January 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122307/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2459000/2459167.stm 7 March 2008 live 4 January – 300 children attack British Army troops in Derry, Northern Ireland.300 Children Attack 6 Soldiers in Londonderry 1973-01-04 The New York Times 11 January – The Open University awards its first degrees.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_2519000/2519681.stm 1973: First Open University degrees awarded BBC News 11 February 2008 11 January 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122403/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_2519000/2519681.stm 7 March 2008 live 18 January – Eleven Labour Party councillors in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England, are ordered to pay £6,985 for not enforcing the Housing Finance Act. 19 January – The super tug Statesman is sent to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic action in the Cod War.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/19/newsid_2530000/2530223.stm 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet BBC News 11 February 2008 19 January 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/19/newsid_2530000/2530223.stm 7 March 2008 live 22 January – British share values fall by £4,000,000,000 in one day. 25 January – English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey. February 16 February – The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules that The Sunday Times can publish articles on thalidomide and Distillers Company, despite ongoing legal actions by parents (the decision is overturned in July by the House of Lords). 20 February – Two Pakistanis are shot dead by police in London after being found in the Indian High Commission carrying pistols, which are later established to have been fake. 26 February – Edward Heath's government publishes a Green Paper on prices and incomes policy. 27 February – Rail workers and civil servants go on strike. March 1 March Dick Taverne, having resigned from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on leaving the Labour Party, is re-elected as a 'Democratic Labour' candidate. Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark and bestselling albums, is released in the UK. Sleeve design is by Hipgnosis. 3 March Two IRA bombs explode in London, killing one person and injuring 250 others. Ten people are arrested hours later at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being involved in the bombings. Tottenham Hotspur win the Football League Cup final at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0. 8 March Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum (the "Border Poll"): 98.9% of those voting in the province want Northern Ireland to remain within the UK. Turnout is 58.7%, although less than 1% for Catholics.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2516000/2516477.stm 1973: Northern Ireland votes for union BBC News 11 February 2008 9 March 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307053952/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2516000/2516477.stm 7 March 2008 live This is the first referendum on regional government in the UK. IRA bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in London. 10 March – The governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharples, and his aide-de-camp are assassinated by local activists.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/10/newsid_2798000/2798039.stm 1973: British officials shot dead in Bermuda BBC News 11 February 2008 10 March 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080204033811/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/10/newsid_2798000/2798039.stm 4 February 2008 live 17 March – Elizabeth II opens the replacement London Bridge.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 21 March – Seven men are killed in the Lofthouse Colliery disaster in Yorkshire.The Lofthouse Colliery Disaster January 2003 BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/lofthouse_colliery_disaster.shtml 28 July 2011 26 March – Women are admitted to the London Stock Exchange for the first time.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/26/newsid_2531000/2531145.stm 1973: Stock Exchange admits women BBC News 11 February 2008 26 March 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122419/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/26/newsid_2531000/2531145.stm 7 March 2008 live April 1 April Value-added tax (VAT) comes into effect in the UK.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 434–435 978-0-7126-5616-0 Phase 2 of the Price and Pay Code comes into effect, restricting rises in pay and prices as a counter-inflation measure. 6 April – Peter Niesewand, a correspondent of The Guardian newspaper and the BBC, is jailed in Rhodesia for an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act. 10 April – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435, a charter by a group of women from the Axbridge district of Somerset flying from Bristol to Basel, crashes into a hillside near Hochwald, Switzerland, killing 108 of the 145 on board and injuring all but one of the 37 survivors, leaving 55 children motherless.Will Glennon 2023-04-08 Relative says Basel plane crash news was 'like a bad dream' BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-65206551 2026-04-02 11 April – The House of Commons votes against restoring capital punishment by a margin of 142 votes. 12 April – The Labour Party wins control of the Greater London Council. 17 April – British Leyland launches its new Austin Allegro, a range of 2 and 4-door family saloons which will eventually replace the long-running 1100 and 1300 models, which are set to continue in production alongside the Allegro until 1974. 28 April – Liverpool and Celtic F.C. are crowned league champions of football in England and Scotland respectively.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=alE_AAAAIBAJ&pg=5694,193773&dq=liverpool+football&hl=en Liverpool, Celtics wrap up titles The Windsor Star 30 April 1973 May 1 May – 1.6 million workers go on strike over government pay restraints.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/1/newsid_2480000/2480141.stm 1973: Thousands strike over pay and prices BBC News 11 February 2008 1 May 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080202150934/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/1/newsid_2480000/2480141.stm 2 February 2008 live 5 May–28 July – BBC Television series The Ascent of Man, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski, airs – there is also an accompanying best-selling book.http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ascentofman/ascentofman.htm Ascent of Man Encyclopedia of Television 13 June 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20081216124424/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ascentofman/ascentofman.htm 16 December 2008 dead 5 May – Sunderland A.F.C. achieve a shock 1–0 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Ian Porterfield scores the only goal of the game. It is the first time that an FA Cup winning team has not contained a single player to be capped at full international level, and the first postwar FA Cup won by a side outside the First Division.FA Cup Final 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20071028062322/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1973.htm 28 October 2007 10 May – The Liberal Party gains control of Liverpool council in the local council elections. 14 May – The British House of Commons votes to abolish capital punishment in Northern Ireland. 15 May – In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Edward Heath describes large payments made by Lonrho to Duncan Sandys through the tax haven of the Cayman Islands at a time when the government is trying to implement a counter-inflation policy as the "unacceptable face of capitalism".Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century London Unwin Paperbacks 1987 978-0-04-440080-6 153 Nigel Rees 20 May – The Royal Navy sends three frigates to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic action in the Cod War dispute.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_2510000/2510837.stm 1973: Royal Navy moves to protect trawlers BBC News 11 February 2008 20 May 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122433/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_2510000/2510837.stm 7 March 2008 live 22 May – Lord Lambton resigns as an MP and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (RAF) over a 'call girl' scandal. 23 May – The Matrimonial Causes Act amends the law of divorce in England and Wales. 24 May – Earl Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, resigns over a separate prostitution scandal. 29 May – Anne, Princess Royal, announces her engagement to equestrian Captain Mark Phillips. June 6 June – St Mary's Church, Putney in London is gutted by fire, later revealed to be arson. 23 June – A fire at a house in Hull which kills a six-year-old boy is initially thought to be an accident but later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. July 1 July – The British Library is established by merger of the British Museum Library in London and the National Lending Library for Science and Technology at Boston Spa in Yorkshire. 5 July The Guardianship Act makes the rights of a mother equal with those of a father in respect of the care, custody and guardianship of minors in England and Wales.Guardianship Act 1973 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/29/enacted legislation.gov.uk 1973-07-05 2026-06-23 The Isle of Man Post begins to issue its own postage stamps. 6 July – The eighth James Bond film – Live and Let Die – is released in British cinemas, with the spy being played for the first time by 45-year-old The Saint star Roger Moore.http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/lald.php3 Mi6.co.uk www.mi6.co.uk usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20081116043137/http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/lald.php3 16 November 2008 10 July – The Bahamas gain full independence from the United Kingdom within the Commonwealth of Nations.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498835.stm 1973: Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire BBC News 11 February 2008 9 July 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080201022831/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498835.stm 1 February 2008 live 26 July – Parliamentary by-elections in the Isle of Ely and Ripon constituencies result in both seats being gained from the Conservatives by the Liberal Party candidates, media personality Clement Freud and David Austick respectively. 30 July Markham Colliery disaster: Eighteen coal miners are killed at the coal mine near Staveley, Derbyshire, when the brake mechanism on their cage fails. £20,000,000 compensation is paid to victims of Thalidomide following an eleven-year court case.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_4582000/4582119.stm 1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims BBC News 11 February 2008 30 July 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122158/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_4582000/4582119.stm 7 March 2008 live 31 July – Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2491000/2491885.stm 1973: Chaotic meeting of Belfast Assembly BBC News 11 February 2008 31 July 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122209/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2491000/2491885.stm 7 March 2008 live August 20 August – Football League president Len Shipman calls for the government to bring back the birch as a tactic of dealing with the growing problem of football hooliganism. 21 August – The coroner in the Bloody Sunday inquest accuses the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder" after the jury returns an open verdict.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/21/newsid_2500000/2500321.stm 1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army BBC News 11 February 2008 21 August 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122213/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/21/newsid_2500000/2500321.stm 7 March 2008 live September 3 September – The Trades Union Congress expels 20 members for registering under the Industrial Relations Act 1971. 8 September – The IRA detonates bombs in Manchester and at London Victoria station.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504619.stm 1973: Bomb blasts rock central London BBC News 11 February 2008 10 September 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122437/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504619.stm 7 March 2008 live 11 September ... IRA bombs at King's Cross and Euston railway stations in London injure 13 people. The fashion store Biba reopens in Kensington High Street.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_3914000/3914415.stm 1973: Big Biba opens its doors BBC News 11 February 2008 10 September 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122252/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_3914000/3914415.stm 7 March 2008 live 12 September – Further IRA bombs explode in London's Oxford Street and Sloane Square. 28 September – The Somerset Coalfield is last worked (at Lower Writhlington near Radstock).17 Shane Gould The Collieries of North Somerset http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs/ScannedBulletinArticles/Bulletin%2013-2%20-%20The%20Collieries%20of%20North%20Somerset.pdf Mining History 13 2 Winter 1996 13 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20120305022859/http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs/ScannedBulletinArticles/Bulletin%2013-2%20-%20The%20Collieries%20of%20North%20Somerset.pdf 5 March 2012 dead October 8 October London Broadcasting Company, the United Kingdom's first legal commercial terrestrial Independent Local Radio station, begins broadcasting.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/newsid_2530000/2530721.stm 1973: Commercial radio joins UK airwaves BBC News 11 February 2008 8 October 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307010636/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/newsid_2530000/2530721.stm 7 March 2008 live Prime Minister Edward Heath announces government proposals for its counter-inflationary Price and Pay Code Stage Three (continuing to July 1974), including limiting pay rises to 7%, restricting price rises, and paying a £10 Christmas bonus to pensioners – a move which would cost around £80,000,000 funded by a 9p rise in National Insurance contributions. 16 October The film Don't Look Now, containing one of the most graphic sex scenes hitherto shown in mainstream British cinema, is released in a double bill with The Wicker Man.Patrick Robertson Film Facts London Quantum Books 2007 978-1-84573-235-6 Capital Radio, the United Kingdom's first legal music-themed commercial Independent Local Radio station, begins broadcasting in London. 20 October – The Dalai Lama makes his first visit to the UK.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/newsid_2489000/2489855.stm 1973: Dalai Lama makes first UK visit BBC News 11 February 2008 20 October 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122352/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/newsid_2489000/2489855.stm 7 March 2008 live 26 October – Firefighters in Glasgow stage a one-day strike as part of a pay dispute; troops are drafted in to cover the fire stations. 31 October – The sixth series of BBC television sitcom Dad's Army opens with the episode "The Deadly Attachment" containing the "Don't tell him, Pike!" exchange which will become rated as one of the top three greatest comedy moments of British television.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/427767.stm BBC News Television's crowning moments 1999-08-24 2020-01-27 November 8 November The Second Cod War between the United Kingdom and Iceland ends. The government makes £146,000,000 compensation available to three nationalised industries to cover losses resulting from the price restraint policies. 12 November Miners begin an overtime ban; ambulance drivers begin selective strikes. Television sitcom Last of the Summer Wine begins its first series run on BBC One, following a premiere in Comedy Playhouse on 4 January. It will run for 31 series spanning 37 years. 14 November Eight members of the Provisional IRA are convicted of the March bombings in London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_4724000/4724181.stm 1973: IRA gang convicted of London bombings BBC News 11 February 2008 14 November 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122224/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_4724000/4724181.stm 7 March 2008 live Anne, Princess Royal, marries Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_2519000/2519003.stm 1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne BBC News 11 February 2008 14 November 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122244/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_2519000/2519003.stm 7 March 2008 live 26 November – Peter Walker, the Secretary for Trade and Industry, warns that petrol rationing may have to be introduced in the near future as a result of the oil crisis in the Middle East which is restricting petrol supply. November – Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches a low of 3.4%; it goes no lower for at least 40 years. December 5 December – The speed limit on all roads including motorways is reduced to 50 mph from 70 mph until further notice as a result of the oil crisis.Driving over 50 mph banned from tonight 7 December 1973 The Times London 4 9 December – The Sunningdale Agreement is signed in Sunningdale, Berkshire by Prime Minister Edward Heath, Irish premier Liam Cosgrave, and representatives of the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/9/newsid_2536000/2536767.stm 1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed BBC News 11 February 2008 9 December 1973 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307122414/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/9/newsid_2536000/2536767.stm 7 March 2008 live 10 December Brian Josephson shares the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 11 February 2008 Geoffrey Wilkinson wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ernst Otto Fischer "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1973/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 11 February 2008 19 December – Ealing rail crash: The 17.18 Paddington to Oxford express train is derailed between Ealing Broadway and West Ealing due to a locomotive maintenance error resulting in 10 dead and 94 injured.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=135 Accident at West Ealing on 19th December 1973 Railways Archive 24 December 2018 31 December – Coal shortages caused by industrial action result in the implementation of the Three-Day Week electricity consumption reduction measure.A History of the British Labour Party https://books.google.com/books?id=ikxdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 29 January 1997 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-25305-0 184 Undated Inflation rises to 8.4%.http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750-1998 3 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 19 February 2006 dead Total fertility rate (average number of births per woman over her reproductive life) falls to 2.04, giving sub-replacement fertility for the UK.Fertility rate, total (births per woman) - United Kingdom https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=GB World Bank 2022-01-15 The sex ratio (excess of male children born over females) reaches 106.7, the highest this century for the UK.Sex ratios at birth in the United Kingdom https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sex-ratios-at-birth-in-the-united-kingdom-2016-to-2020/sex-ratios-at-birth-in-the-united-kingdom-2016-to-2020 Office for Health Improvement & Disparities 2022-11-10 2023-09-29 GOV.UK Start of Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975.A History of Money from ancient times to the present day Glyn Davies rev. Cardiff University of Wales Press 1996 978-0-7083-1351-0 406–23 Darul Uloom Bury, the UK's oldest Islamic seminary, is established. The Vindolanda tablets are discovered by Robin Birley near Hadrian's Wall. Pizza Hut opens its first UK restaurant, in Islington.http://www.pizzahut.co.uk/restaurants/our-history.aspx Our history Pizza Hut 2010 4 January 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110207130931/http://pizzahut.co.uk/restaurants/our-history.aspx 7 February 2011 live The National House Building Council is formed . Completion of Cromwell Tower, the first tower block on the Barbican Estate in the City of London and at this date London's tallest residential tower at 42 storeys and 123 m ft 0 high. Death of last pure-bred Norfolk Horn ram. Publications Martin Amis's novel The Rachel Papers. Agatha Christie's novel Postern of Fate. J. G. Farrell's novel The Siege of Krishnapur. Graham Greene's novel The Honorary Consul. B. S. Johnson's novel Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry. Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince. Births January–March 1 January – Jimi Mistry, actor 18 January Crispian Mills, musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker) Ben Willbond, actor and screenwriter 29 January – Miranda Krestovnikoff, née Harper-Jones, archaeologist and television host 7 February – Kate Thornton, television presenterKate Thornton. Biography, news, photos and videos https://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/kate-thornton/ 8 October 2020 Hello Magazine en 8 February – Sonia Deol, presenter 10 February – Martha Lane Fox, businesswoman and life peer 13 February – Ian Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank, English politician 27 February – Peter Andre, singer 28 February – Jonathan Dakin, cricketer 2 March – Trevor Sinclair, football player and commentator 3 March – Matthew Marsden, actor and martial artist 4 March – Penny Mordaunt, politician 10 March – Chris Sutton, football player and commentator 28 March – Scott Mills, radio disc jockey 30 March – Elizabeth Arnold (swimmer), swimmer April–June 1 April – Kris Marshall, actor 2 April – Simon Farnaby, actor, writer and comedian 3 April – Jamie Bamber, actor 7 April – Christian O'Connell, radio DJ and presenter 11 April – Amanda Staveley, business executive 21 April Steve Backshall, naturalist, writer and television presenter Mark Dexter, actor 24 April – Gabby Logan, sports presenter 26 April – Geoff Lloyd, radio host 26 April – Chris Perry, English footballer 8 May Marcus Brigstocke, British comedian Paul Warne, English football player and manager 10 May Gareth Ainsworth, English footballer 14 May – Fraser Nelson, political journalist 17 May – Tamsier Joof Aviance, dancer, choreographer and entrepreneur (of Senegalese and Gambian descent) 19 May Dario Franchitti, Scottish racing driver and commentator Alice Roberts, English scientist and broadcaster 21 May – Noel Fielding, English comedian 24 May Dermot O'Leary, British television presenter Matthew Rudd, British radio presenter 28 May – Nathan Jones, Welsh football player and manager 30 May – Leigh Francis, British comedian 9 June – Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter 24 June – Charles Venn, English actor 25 June – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer 27 June Razaaq Adoti, actor, producer and screenwriter Tom Tugendhat, English politician July–September 2 July – Peter Kay, comedianhttps://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=QE2VOcQx%2FY%2FbK247QBnLEQ&scan=1 Index entry birth record 5 July 2021 FreeBMD ONS 3 July – Emma Cunniffe, actress 6 July – Bradley Dredge, golfer 8 July – Viv Groskop, journalist and comedian 10 July Neil Bannister, English cricketer Craig Heap, English gymnast 19 July – Wayne Rigby, British boxer 23 July – Fran Healy, singer (Travis) 25 July Dani Filth, vocalist Kevin Phillips, English footballer 26 July – Kate Beckinsale, actress 27 July – Tom Kerridge, chef 28 July (possible date) – Banksy, graffiti artist 3 August – Stephen Graham, actor 6 August – Iain Morris, screenwriter and producer 12 August – Richard Reid, terrorist 20 August – Stephen Nolan, Northern Irish radio presenter 24 August – Dave Brown, English comedian 5 September – Paddy Considine, actor 12 September – Darren Campbell, athlete 15 September – Julie Cox, English actress 20 September – Jason MacIntyre, Scottish racing cyclist (died 2008) 29 September – Alfie Boe, singer and actor October–December 3 October Richard Ian Cox, Welsh-Canadian voice actor and radio host Grace Dent, English journalist and broadcaster 21 October – Bev Turner, British television and radio presenter 5 November – Danniella Westbrook, actress and television personality 10 November – Jacqui Abbott, English singer 18 November – Jonnie Irwin, English television presenter (died 2024) 24 November – Lucy Liemann, English actress 29 November – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer 1 December – Kieron Durkan, English-born Irish footballer (died 2018)http://www.scfc.co.uk/profile.php?id=65 SCFC Profile 5 September 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20101128005107/http://scfc.co.uk/profile.php?id=65 28 November 2010 dead 4 December – Michael Jackson, English football defender and manager 17 December – Paula Radcliffe, British athlete 18 December – Lucy Worsley, English historian 24 December Paul Foot, English comedian Matt Tebbutt, British television presenter and chef 25 December – Ewen MacIntosh, Welsh actor and comedian (died 2024)Ewen MacIntosh: The Office actor dies aged 50 Undated Katie Carr, actress and model Frances Hardinge, young adult fiction writer Deaths January–March 15 January – Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist (born 1891) 19 January – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (born 1903) 16 February – Harold Gibbons, English cricketer (born 1904) 22 February – Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (born 1899) 12 March – David Lack, British ornithologist and biologist (born 1910) 13 March – Melville Cooper, actor (born 1896) 26 March – Noël Coward, English composer and playwright (born 1899) 30 March – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, British politician and Conservative peer (born 1903) April–June 9 May – Owen Brannigan, English singer (born 1908) 11 May – Russell Everitt, English cricketer (born 1881) 14 May – A. C. Ewing, British philosopher (born 1899) 21 May – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (born 1890) 6 June – Jimmy Clitheroe, aka 'The Clitheroe Kid', English comedian (born 1921) 18 June – Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who) (born 1918) July–September c. July – Kanso Yoshida, seaman related to the Japanese imperial family (born 1895) 1 July – Charles Ernest Garforth, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1891) 8 July – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (born 1877) 18 July John Brown Hamilton, Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1896) Jack Hawkins, English actor (The Cruel Sea) (born 1910) 29 July – Roger Williamson, British race car driver (born 1948) 6 August – James Beck, actor (born 1929) 15 August – Edward Turner, English motorcycle designer (born 1901) 16 August – A. K. Chesterton, South African-born far-right politician and journalist (born 1896) 17 August – George Benson, British Labour Party politician (born 1889) 18 August – Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British Ulster Unionist politician (born 1888) 29 August – Stringer Davis, English actor (born 1896) 2 September – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (born 1892) 6 September – William Henry Harris, English organist and composer (born 1883) 9 September – Bill Doran, English motorcycle road racer (born 1916) 11 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (born 1902) 20 September – William Plomer, South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (born 1903) 21 September – C. H. Dodd, Welsh scholar and theologian (born 1884) 24 September – Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, British peeress 25 September – George Porter, British Labour Party politician (born 1884) 29 September – W. H. Auden, British-American poet, died in Austria (born 1907)W. H. Auden https://www.bl.uk/people/w-h-auden www.bl.uk 20 November 2022 9 December 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221209154628/https://www.bl.uk/people/w-h-auden/ dead October–December 4 October – Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician and Conservative peer (born 1894) 6 October – Dennis Price, actor (born 1915) 9 October – Hilda Plowright, English actress (born 1890) 25 October – Sir William Whitworth, admiral (born 1884) 10 November – Gerald Cock, British broadcasting executive (born 1887) 21 November – Sir Roy Fedden, English aircraft engine designer (born 1885) 5 December – Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (born 1892) 9 December – Anthony Gilbert (pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson), British crime fiction writer (born 1899) 13 December – Henry Green, novelist (born 1905) See also 1973 in British music 1973 in British television List of British films of 1973 References 30em 1973 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1973 by country Category:1973 in Europe