1873 births

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

French author (1873-1935)

Danish author (1873-1950)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.

French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)

French surgeon and biologist

Italian opera singer (1873–1921)

Serbian writer (1873–1908)

Mexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)

American writer (1873–1947)

founder of association football institutions (1873–1956)

French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

Russian opera singer and actor (1873-1938)

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)

English philosopher (1873–1958)

Swedish scientist (1873-1964)

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)

German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)

Jewish-German pharmacologist

American inventor (1873–1961)

French writer (1873–1907)

German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)

German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)

Ukrainian general (1873-1945)

Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873-1940)

Danish astronomer and chemist

Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45

queen consort of Italy (1900-1946) and Servant of God; mother of Umberto II of Italy

Greek athlete

Turkish poet and writer (1873–1936)

theatre director and actor (1873-1943)

Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)

Finnish-American architect (1873-1950)

German writer (1873-1934)

Russian politician (1873–1923)

Italian mathematician and physicist (1873–1941)

Serbian artist (1873-1915)

French film director (1873–1968)

British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)

English writer and publisher (1873-1939)

German politician (1873-1939)

Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)

Greek mathematician (1873-1950)

Soldier, mayor of Vienna, federal president of Austria (1873-1957)

American statesman and governor (1873–1944)

German film director (1873–1938)

American laborer and assassin (1873–1901)

Australian middle distance runner and tennis player (1873-1935)

Soviet politician (1873-1966)

Hungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)

Russian writer (1873–1954)

Spanish novelist, essayist and literary critic (1873–1967)

American track and field athlete (1873–1937)

Italian explorer (1873-1933)

Prime Minister of Denmark (1873–1942)

German ethnologist and archaeologist (1873–1938)

anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist (1873-1958)

Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)

Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)

American paleontologist (1873-1963)