List of Famous people who died at 73

Augusto Matine was a Portuguese footballer and manager who played as a midfielder mostly for Benfica and Vitória de Setúbal at club level and nine times for the Portugal national team. Most notably, he managed the Mozambique national team.

Anthony West was an English author and literary critic.

Maria De Unterrichter Jervolino was an Italian teacher and politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy and subsequently served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 1963.

Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist. He was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring. Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades. During this time, he secretly revived the suppressed Lidové noviny newspaper.

Sir William Lawrence, 4th Baronet FRHS was an English baronet and businessman.