List of Famous people who died at 73

Franklin Latimore was an American actor.

Paul Herget was an American astronomer and director of the Cincinnati Observatory, who established the Minor Planet Center after World War II.

André Jean René Lacrampe, Ist. del Prado was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Besançon.

Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald Ekdahl, was the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Hans Arnold Engelhard was a German jurist. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), he served as German Federal Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Kohl I, II, and III, between 1982 and 1991.

Jerry Earl Nelson was an American astronomer known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which led to him receiving the 2010 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics.

Frank Bradford Morse was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He had a notable career in the United States Congress and the United Nations. In Congress, he served in various capacities for nearly twenty years, the last twelve as Congressman from Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1972, he became Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and in 1976, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. He received a Franklin D. Roosevelt "Four Freedoms" award for his career as an international public servant.

Marie Luise Kaschnitz was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets.