List of Famous people who died at 73

Semyon Konstantinovich Kurkotkin was a Soviet military commander and a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965 and promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1968. Batitsky served in the Red Army from 1924 and was commander-in-chief of the Air Defense Forces from 1966 to 1978. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former head of the NKVD.

Merrill Pye was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film North by Northwest.

Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming was a British cello performer and teacher.

Neil Terence Columba Blaney was an Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1948 as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) representing Donegal East. Blaney served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (1957), Minister for Local Government (1957–1966) and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1966–1970). He was Father of the Dáil from 1987 until his death.

William Dennis Gargan was an American film, television and radio actor. He was the 5th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967, and in 1941, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joe in They Knew What They Wanted. He acted in decades of movies including parts in Follow the Leader, Rain, Night Flight, Three Sons, Isle of Destiny and many others. The role he was best known for was that of a private detective Martin Kane in the 1949–1952 radio-television series Martin Kane, Private Eye. In television, he was also in 39 episodes of The New Adventures of Martin Kane.

Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal was a veteran Somali politician. He was the President of Somaliland from 1993 to 2002. He previously served as the first Prime Minister of the Somali Republic during the early and late 1960s.

Alan Rafkin was an American director, producer, and actor for television.

Marian "Marek" Spychalski was a Polish architect in pre-war Poland, and later, military commander and a politician. During World War II he belonged to the Polish underground forces operating within Poland and was one of the leaders of the resistance movement Gwardia Ludowa, then Armia Ludowa.

Ernst Hadorn was a Swiss developmental biologist. He developed techniques for imaginal disc transplantation in Drosophila, leading to the formation of fate maps, and studied the organization of mature discs. He discovered the phenomenon of transdetermination. Hadorn was noted for both his experimental skills and teaching.