List of Famous people who died at 73
Piet Keizer
Petrus Johannes "Piet" Keizer was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Atsutoshi Nishida
Atsutoshi Nishida was a Japanese business executive.
Didier Notheaux
Didier Notheaux was a French football player and coach.
Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953). For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Akiko Seki
Akiko Seki was a Japanese soprano. She is commonly recognized as the founder of the movement of The Singing Voice of Japan. In 1955 she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.
Yuriy Meshkov
Yuri Alexandrovich Meshkov was a Crimean politician and a leader of the pro-Russian movement in Crimea. Yuriy Meshkov served as the only President of Crimea from 1994 to 1995.
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
Hans Tiedge
Hans-Joachim Tiedge was a head of West Germany's counter-intelligence in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in Cologne. He was revealed to be an East German spy when he defected to the East on August 19, 1985. He had been recruited by Markus Wolf. In the four years prior to his defection, he was responsible tor tracking down East German spies, but with little success. In the same period, the East Germans captured 168 West German spies. He was thought to have defected for personal reasons, as he had not, apparently, been discovered. His treachery was called the most damaging of the Cold War for the Federal Republic of Germany, resulting in the recall of numerous West German agents still in the field and plunging the West German counterespionage service into ruins.
Abdul Rahman Al Faisal
Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud was a member of House of Saud and a military officer. He later involved in business.
Jaime Morey
Jaime García Morey better known as Jaime Morey was a Spanish singer from Alicante, best known for representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 in Edinburgh with the song "Amanece". He finished 10th in a field of 18.