List of Famous people who died at 73

Joseph Robert Shoenfield was an American mathematical logician.

Winfried Hassemer was a German criminal law scholar. He was vice president of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Dorothy Edith Round, was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major successes in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, and the singles at the Australian Championships in 1935. She also had success as a mixed doubles player at Wimbledon, winning a total of three titles. After her wedding in 1937, she played under her married name, Mrs D.L. Little. During the Second World War, she played in North America and became a professional coach in Canada and the United States. Post-war, she played in British regional tournaments, coached, and wrote on tennis for newspapers.

Josephus Carel Franciscus (Jef) Last was a Dutch poet, writer, translator and cosmopolitan.