List of Famous people who died at 73

Atsuko Tanaka was a Japanese avant-garde artist. She was a central figure of the Gutai Art Association from 1955 to 1965. Her works have found increased curatorial and scholarly attention across the globe since the early 2000s, when she received her first museum retrospective in Ashiya, Japan, which was followed by the first retrospective abroad, in New York and Vancouver. Her work was featured in multiple exhibitions on Gutai art in Europe and North America.

Robert Carson was an American film and television screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer, who won an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of A Star Is Born. He was married to Mary Jane Irving, a former child actress.

Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.

Gino Buzzanca was an Italian film actor.

Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah was a Lebanese actor. He died in a Sidon hospital, suffering from a coma for ten days following a car accident.

Edward Heywood Jr. was an American jazz pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.