List of Famous people who died in 1973

John Nassau Greene was an Irish politician. A farmer from Athy, he was elected to Kildare County Council in the 1925 local elections, standing for the Farmers' Party in the Athy local electoral area. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from April to August 1938. He was elected to the 2nd Seanad in April 1938 to the Agricultural Panel. He did not contest the August 1938 Seanad election.

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough,, styled Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Baronet between 1907 and 1952, was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.

Yuri Nikolayevich Raevsky (1952–1973), also known as The Vnukovo Maniac, was a Soviet rapist and serial killer.

Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, was a British politician, and a Member of Parliament for Isle of Ely from 1945 until his death in 1973.

Herbert James Hunt was an English academic, author and translator, particularly of the novels of Honoré de Balzac.

William Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens, KBE, PC, KC was a British lawyer, judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947.