List of Famous people who died in 1973

Kisso Kawamuro was a pioneering Japanese racing cyclist. His name is also rendered "Kiso".

George Glenn Strange was an American actor who mostly appeared in Western films and was billed as Glenn Strange. He is best remembered for playing Frankenstein's monster in three Universal films during the 1940s and for his role as Sam Noonan, the bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series.

Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov was a Russian guitarist, lutenist and composer. He was a student of Pyotr Isakov (guitar) and Iogann Admoni (composition) at the Rimski-Korsakov Music College in Leningrad.

Bella Bellow was a Togolese singer, who created an international career and recorded several albums. She died at the age of 28 in a car accident in Togo.

Taizo Ichinose was a Japanese war photographer. He was born in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu.

Murry Gage Wilson was an American songwriter and record producer who acted as the first manager of the Beach Boys, a rock band formed by his sons Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, his nephew Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. For most of the 1960s, Murry also worked as a music publisher for the band. He authored or co-authored at least 50 compositions in his lifetime. His most popular songs were "Two-Step, Side-Step", recorded by Johnnie Lee Wills and Bonnie Lou, and "Break Away", released as a Beach Boys single in 1969.

Naciye Suman, known through her career as Madame Naciye or Naciye Hanım, was the first Turkish Muslim professional woman photographer. When Turkish titles were abolished in favor of fixed hereditary surnames, she chose the surname Suman. After learning photography in Austria, she opened a studio in her home in 1919. Her clients were mostly women and she took portraits and bridal pictures. Later, she taught photography classes at the sultan's palace.

Princess Marie Louise Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette of Orléans was a Princess of Orléans by birth and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies through her marriage to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.