List of Famous people who died in 1973

Marthe, Princess Bibesco was a celebrated Romanian-French writer, socialite, style icon and political hostess.

Michael Grace Phipps was an American businessman, champion polo player, owner/breeder of racehorses, and a philanthropist.

Sidney Farber was an American pediatric pathologist. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, which led to the development of other chemotherapeutic agents against other malignancies. Farber was also active in cancer research advocacy and fundraising, most notably through his establishment of the Jimmy Fund, a foundation dedicated to pediatric research in childhood cancers. The Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is named after him.

Yulia Ryabchinskaya was a canoeist from Ukraine and Olympic champion. She represented the USSR at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning the gold in the K-1 500 m event.

Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov, was a colonel in the Soviet secret police and NKVD Rezident in the Second Spanish Republic. In 1938, Orlov refused to return to the Soviet Union due to the fears of execution, and instead fled with his family to the United States. He is mostly known for secretly transporting the entire Spanish gold reserves to the USSR and for his book, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes.

Thomas Minor Pelly was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

General Sir Eric de Burgh, was a British Army officer who became Chief of the General Staff in India.