List of Famous people who died at 73

Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC, was a Barbadian and British West Indian statesman. Adams was a founder of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), and he was named in 1998 as one of the National Heroes of Barbados.

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a Russian conductor, composer and a pianist.

Vassilis Photopoulos was an influential Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer.

Arthur Useldinger was a Luxembourgian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of Luxembourg. Useldinger served two stints as Mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette: one following the end of the Second World War, and one in the 1970s, both in coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party. He is remembered as the most popular of Esch-sur-Alzette's post-war mayors. In addition, Useldinger sat in the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies for a total of twenty-five years between the war and his death

Mario Cecchi Gori was an Italian film producer and owner of companies. He produced over 200 films, notably with Damiano Damiani, Dino Risi and Ettore Scola.

Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".

Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam was a Swedish television host, actor and comedian. Härenstam hosted the Swedish version of the game-show Jeopardy! for 14 years before being replaced by Adam Alsing. Härenstam is also known for hosting the children's TV-program Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter, which was very popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times since it first aired. Härenstam participated in the music video for ABBA's hit song "When I Kissed the Teacher" where he played the teacher who got kissed by Agnetha Fältskog. Well known in Sweden for several decades, he was almost equally popular in Norway, having starred in the 1990s sitcom Fredrikssons fabrikk, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop.

Iya Alexeyevna Arepina was a Soviet/Russian actress.