List of Famous people who died in 1973

Kamal Butros Nasser was a Palestinian political leader, writer and poet.

Catherine Brieger Stern ( was a German psychologist and educator. Born under the name Käthe Brieger, she developed sets of mathematical manipulatives similar to Cuisenaire rods for children to use in building up their number sense and knowledge of arithmetic. Her book, Children Discover Arithmetic was used by others to work on the problems that children face when learning arithmetic.

Elizabeth Bowen CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her fiction about life in wartime London.

Jack Wilton Marshall was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was the father of producer/director Frank Marshall and composer Phil Marshall and the cousin of classical guitarist Christopher Parkening.

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".