1973 in India

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Events in the year 1973 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi

Events

• 1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
• 1 November – [State of Mysore] is renamed Karnataka State.

Births

January to June

• 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
• 11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
• 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
• 6 April – Prashanth Thyagarajan, actor.
• 24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
• 17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
• 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
• 22 June – Devayani, actress.

July to December

• 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
• 1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
• 19 November – Shakeela, actress.
• 17 December – John Abraham, actor.

Full date unknown

• Arunabha Sengupta, novelist.

Deaths

• 20 November - Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author (b. 1885)
• 30 December – Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (b. 1904).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1973