List of Famous people who died at 73

Art Landy was an American animator who specialized in animation set decoration, working on over 150 animated features. After beginning his career in Disney Studio in the second half of the 1940s, he joined the Walter Lantz Studio in 1953 and worked there until the end of 1966. At Disney, he mostly worked on the series of Pluto films, and on the 1953 animated feature film Peter Pan. At Lantz, he worked on numerous Woody Woodpecker shorts.

Agustín Cárdenas Alfonso was a Cuban sculptor who was active in the Surrealist movement in Paris. His sculpture was influenced by Brâncuși, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp. Poet André Breton said of his artistic hand that it was "efficient as a dragonfly."

Yuko Minamimura was a Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder. From 1950 to 1953 he went by the name of Fukashi Minamimura.

Mário Calixto Filho was a Brazilian politician, journalist and businessman from the state of Minas Gerais who represented the state of Rondônia at national level.

Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov was a Soviet historian and archaeologist, who came to be recognized as the founding father of modern Khazar studies.