List of Famous people who died at 73

Puntillita was a Cuban popular singer. Puntillita was active in the 1940s and 1950s, and later gained notice when he joined other elderly Cuban musicians to form the Afro-Cuban All Stars and the associated group of singers who recorded the Buena Vista Social Club with American guitarist Ry Cooder.

Niki Linardou was a Greek film and stage actress. She was the second wife of Alekos Sakellarios. After their marriage she worked as a television producer. As an actress appeared in many famous Greek films: The Fortune Teller (1956), We Have Only One Life (1958), The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (1959), A Matter of Earnestness (1965) and Kalos ilthe to dollario (1967). Her real name was Androniki "Mpempi" Koula" which she was used since 1962.

Milton Carruth was an American film editor and, for a period in the 1930s, film director. Among the 129 films he edited are All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadow of a Doubt, Pillow Talk, and Imitation of Life. His career as an editor spanned nearly four decades, from 1929 through 1966 (The Pad and How to Use It.

Richard Buckley was an American fashion journalist and editor. Buckley wrote for Vogue Italia and New York magazine, and worked as an editor for Women's Wear Daily, Vanity Fair, and Vogue Hommes, the latter of which he was editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2005.

Franz Handlos was a German right-wing politician.

Merritt B. Gerstad was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films.