List of Famous people who died at 73

Vanusa Santos Flores was a Brazilian singer, linked to the Jovem Guarda movement. She released many solo albums, most of them self-titled.

Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather. Morton Thiokol's managers decided to launch the shuttle despite his warnings. He was considered a high-profile whistleblower.

José Rivera "Riverita" Pérez was a Spanish bullfighter. He was the brother of Paquirri.

Judith Kennedy was an American politician and businesswoman. She was an independent politician, but was a member of the Democratic Party until 2015. In 2011, Kennedy was elected Mayor of Newburgh, New York, serving in the office until her death in 2018.

Pierre Reid was a Canadian politician and educator in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2018, representing Orford as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Reid was a former cabinet minister in Jean Charest's government.

Horacio González Fontova was an Argentine actor, singer-songwriter and comedian. He was born in Buenos Aires. He was known for his roles in The Plague (1992), Aballay (2011) and Underdogs (2013). He appeared in the Argentine historical television series Algo habrán hecho por la historia argentina.

James Forrest Kiick was an American professional football player who was a running back. He played for the Miami Dolphins in the American Football League (AFL) from 1968 to 1969 and in the National Football League (NFL) from 1970 through 1977, except for 1975 when he played in the World Football League.

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. His artwork was considered to be "disruptive". He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.

Yeduguri Sandinti Raja Reddy was an Indian politician and father of Indian National Congress strongman and two-time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. Belonging to the Y S family from Pulivendula in Cuddapah district, Raja Reddy was killed in a bomb attack in 1998.