List of Famous people who died at 73

Elizabeth Clare Douglas was a British film editor who received a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the 2006 film United 93. Douglas worked extensively for British television, and had been nominated four times for BAFTA Television Editing Awards.

Michael Vincent DiSalle was an American attorney and politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of Toledo from 1948 to 1950, and as the 60th governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963.

William Stephen Finsen FRAS was a South African astronomer. He discovered a number of double stars and took many photographs of Mars. He developed the Finsen eyepiece interferometer to measure very close double stars. He was the final director of Union Observatory in South Africa from 1957 to 1965.

Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951.

Giuseppe Dozza was an Italian politician, the first Mayor of Bologna after the end of World War II.

Noel Euchuria Cornelius Cantwell was an Irish soccer player and sometime cricketer born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. He was educated at the Roman Catholic Presentation Brothers College in Cork.

Henry R. "Hank" Cosby was an American songwriter, arranger, producer and musician who worked for Motown Records from its formative years. Along with Sylvia Moy, Cosby was a key collaborator with Stevie Wonder from 1963–1970. Cosby co-wrote and/or co-produced three No. 1 US hits: Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips" (1963), The Supremes' "Love Child" (1968), and The Miracles' "The Tears of a Clown" (1968).

Odiel Van Den Meersschaut was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Belgian national road race title in 1940.

Rollin Augustus "Rod" Daniel III was an American television and film director, active from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. His films include the 1985 Michael J. Fox comedy film Teen Wolf, which was a considerable box office success.