List of Famous people who died in 1973

Arthur Augustus Calwell KCSG was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. He led the party to three federal elections.

Masao Ohba was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He became the WBA flyweight champion on October 22, 1970, defeating the reigning champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai in Tokyo and retained the championship for an impressive five title defenses. He died in a car accident at 23, still holding his world title. He was trained by Isamu Kuwata.

Air Vice-Marshal Robert Peel Willock, was a senior Royal Air Force officer who commanded the British Air Forces in Iraq during the Second World War.

The Honourable Robert Gathorne-Hardy,, known as Bob Gathorne-Hardy, was a British writer, botanist, and horticulturalist. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.

Peggie Castle was an American actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. Castle was Miss Cheesecake in 1949.

Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.