List of Famous people who died at 73

Wayne Lyman Morse was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon, known for his proclivity for opposing his party's leadership, and specifically for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.

Perfecto Rivas Yasay Jr. was a Philippine government official who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines in an ad interim basis from June 30, 2016, until March 8, 2017, the rejection of his appointment by the Commission on Appointments over eligibility concerns resulting from questions on his citizenship.

Vladimir Alexeyevich Saprykin (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Сапры́кин; 24 August 1916 – 24 April 1990) was a Red Army captain and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Saprykin became a Red Army officer and was a regimental assistant chief of staff when he was caught in the Spas-Demensk pocket in October 1941. Saprykin escaped and reached Soviet lines. He was sent to an NKVD filtration camp, where it was decided that Saprykin had committed treason. He was sent to a penal battalion, where he was wounded. Saprykin became a company commander, regimental chief of staff, and battalion commander in the 144th Rifle Division.

Gésio Amadeu was a Brazilian actor.

Constance Ellen Lawn was an American broadcast journalist. Lawn had a brief career in politics, working for a congressman and the 1968 Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign before entering journalism.

Nechama Rivlin was an Israeli researcher, science secretary, and First Lady of Israel from 2014 to 2019. She worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1967 to 2007.

Michael Lai Siu-tin was a Hong Kong music composer. record producer and actor.

Lothar Hermann was a German Jew and concentration camp survivor who contributed to the identification and arrest of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

Franklin Eugene McCain was an American civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four. McCain, along with fellow North Carolina A&T State University students Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, staged a sit-in protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960 after they were refused service due to the color of their skin. Their actions were credited with launching the Greensboro sit-ins, a massive protest across state lines involving mostly students who took a stand against discrimination in restaurants and stores by refusing to leave when service was denied to them. The sit-ins successfully brought about the reversal of Woolworth's policy of racial segregation in their southern stores, and increased national sentiment to the fight of African-Americans in the south.

Arthur Brough was a British actor and theatre founder, producer and director best known for portraying the character of bumbling senior menswear salesman Ernest Grainger on the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?