List of Famous people who died in 1973

Akiko Seki was a Japanese soprano. She is commonly recognized as the founder of the movement of The Singing Voice of Japan. In 1955 she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.

Mary Wigman was a German dancer and choreographer, notable as the pioneer of expressionist dance, dance therapy, and movement training without pointe shoes. She is considered one of the most important figures in the history of modern dance. She became one of the most iconic figures of Weimar German culture and her work was hailed for bringing the deepest of existential experiences to the stage.

Robert Siodmak was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as The Killers (1946).

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.

Elisabeth Hauptmann was a German writer who worked with fellow German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht.

Almir Moraes de Albuquerque, known as Almir Pernambuquinho, was a Brazilian footballer who played for clubs of Brazil, Argentina and Italy. Almir Pernambuquinho is, by many considered, the inventor of the fute-vôlei. He played for the Brazil national football team in the Copa América Argentina 1959. He was killed in a bar in 1973.

Marjorie "Margie" Hendrix was an American rhythm and blues singer best known for her performances as a founder member and leader of the Raelettes, backing Ray Charles, the father of their child, Charles Wayne Hendrix. The spelling "Hendricks" is sometimes used.

Nobuko Yoshiya was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Several of her stories have been made into films.

Abilkhan Kasteev was a Kazakhstani painter. He was highly decorated, winning the National Artist of Kazakh SSR, and The Laureate of the Chokan Valikhanov State Premium of the Kazakh SSR. He was awarded the Order of October Revolution, and two Orders of Labour Red Flag.