Famous People Who Died in 1973

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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Jan 22 36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64

Jan 23 Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
Jan 23 Edward "Kid" Ory, American New Orleans style jazz trombonist, dies of pneumonia and a heart attack at 86
Jan 24 Alan Lisette, New Zealand cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956), dies at 53
Jan 24 J. Carrol Naish, American actor (Sahara; A Medal for Benny), dies of emphysema at 77
Jan 25 Masao Ohba, Japanese boxer (WBA flyweight champion), dies in a car accident at 23
Jan 26 Edward G. Robinson [Goldenberg], Romanian actor (Double Indemnity, The Stranger, The Ten Commandments), dies at 79
Jan 26 Jay C. Higginbotham, American swing jazz trombonist (Luis Russell'; Red Allen;, Benny Carter), dies at 67
Jan 26 Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71
Jan 27 William Nolde, US Army officer, last US soldier killed during Vietnam War, dies at 43
Jan 28 John Banner, Austrian-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes, Lone Ranger, 36 Hours), dies of a abdominal haemorrhage at 63
Jan 29 Johannes Paul Thilman, German composer, dies at 67
Jan 29 Ludwig Stössel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera, The Pride of the Yankees), dies at 89
Jan 30 Jack MacGowran, Irish actor (King Lear, The Quiet Man, The Exorcist), dies of influenza at 54
Jan 31 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and 1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 1969, dies at 77
Feb 2 Hendrik Elias, Flemish historian and Mayor of Ghent (1941-44), dies at 70
Feb 3 Edward Lockspeiser, British composer and musicologist (Debussy: His Life and Mind), dies at 67
Feb 6 Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74
Feb 8 Herbie Taylor, South African cricket batsman and captain (42 Tests; 2,936 runs @ 40.77; 7 x 100s), dies at 83
Feb 9 Max Yasgur, American dairy farmer, and owner Woodstock Festival site in Bethel, New York, dies of a heart attack at 53
Feb 9 Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek-American actress (The Exorcist), dies at 89
Feb 11 Elisabeth Achelis, American heiress, writer, and proponent of the 13-month World Calendar, dies at 93
Feb 11 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
Feb 12 Benjamin Frankel, British composer, dies at 67
Feb 15 Tim Holt [Charles John Holt III], American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), dies of bone cancer at 54
Feb 15 Wallace "Wally" Cox, American comedian and actor (Mister, Underdog, Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies of a heart attack at 48
Feb 16 Herbert J. Krapp, American theatre architect and designer responsible for almost half of current Broadway venues, dies of a heart attack at 86
Feb 16 Pieter Van der Bijl, South African cricket batsman (5 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 125; Western Province, Oxford University CC), dies at 65

Frank Costello (1891-1973)

Feb 18 Italian-American gangster (The Prime Minister of the Underworld), dies of a heart attack at 82

Feb 20 Brigitte Reimann, German writer (Franziska Linkerhand), dies of cancer at 39
Feb 20 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), dies at 80
Feb 20 Maurice Dallimore, British actor (The Collector, Me and My Girl), dies from Laennec's cirrhosis at 60
Feb 22 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (The Death of the Heart, Cat Jumps), dies at 73
Feb 22 Hope Landin, American actress (I Remember Mama; Sugarfoot), dies at 79
Feb 22 Jean-Jacques Bertrand, 21st Premier of Quebec (1968-70), dies at 56
Feb 22 Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
Feb 22 Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
Feb 23 Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (Nobel 1956 - development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases), dies at 77
Feb 24 Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of a heart attack at 73
Feb 26 Doc Hayes, American basketball coach (Southern Methodist University 1947-67), dies in an auto accident at 67
Feb 26 Mary Finney, American actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
Feb 27 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav conductor and composer, dies at 72
Feb 28 (Pablo) "Tito" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican timbalero, singer, bandleader ("Inolvidable"), and television host, dies of leukemia at 50
Feb 28 Cecil Kellaway, South African-American stage and screen character actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; The Luck of the Irish), dies at 82
Mar 2 Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
Mar 3 Vera Panova, Russian author and journalist (Sputniki), dies at 67
Mar 4 Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
Mar 5 Michael Jeffery, British music manager (The Animials; Jimi Hendrix), dies in a mid-air plane collision over France at 39)
Mar 5 Rupert Crosse, American actor, 1st African-American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award (The Reivers), dies of lung cancer at 45
Mar 6 Paul Kletzki [Paweł Klecki], Polish-Swiss violinist, composer, and conductor, dies during orchestral rehearsal at 72
Mar 6 Pearl S. Buck, American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at 80
Mar 7 Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian World War I fighter ace known as the "Eagle of Flanders" with 11 known kills and 19 unconfirmed, dies at 78
Mar 8 Gordon Leggat, New Zealand cricket batsman (9 Tests, 2 x 50; Canterbury), dies at 46
Mar 8 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American rock singer, harmonica player, and occasional keyboardist (Grateful Dead, 1965-72), dies of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at 27
Mar 10 Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
Mar 10 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
Mar 12 Esther Williamson Ballou, American organist, composer and educator, dies at 57
Mar 12 Frankie Frisch, American Baseball HOF infielder (3 x MLB All-Star; 4 x World Series; NL MVP 1931; NY Giants, St.L Cardinals) and manager (St.L Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs), dies at 74
Mar 12 Manuel Rojas, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
Mar 13 Stacy Harris, Canadian born actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
Mar 14 Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (Harvard Mark I computer), dies at 73
Mar 14 Murat B. "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
Mar 14 Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer, dies at 65
Mar 16 Carl Benton Reid, American actor (Pressure Point, In a Lonely Place), dies at 79
Mar 17 Geertruida Magdelena Wilhelmina Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
Mar 18 Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American baritone tenor (National Symphony), dies at 82
Mar 21 Antoni Szałowski, Polish-French composer (The Resurrection of Lazarus; 2 Pieces for Ondes Martenot), dies of a heart attack at 65
Mar 23 Ken Maynard, American stuntman and actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies of stomach cancer at 77
Mar 25 Edward Steichen, American photographer (Family of Man), dies at 93
Mar 26 Don Messer, Canadian folk fiddler, and television host (Jubilee, 1959-73), dies of a heart attack at 63
Mar 26 George Sisler, American Baseball HOF first baseman (AL MVP 1922; AL batting champion 1920, 22 St. Louis Browns) and manager (St. Louis Browns 1924–26), dies at 80
Mar 26 Johnny Drake, American NFL football running back, 1937-41 (Cleveland Rams), dies at 56

Noël Coward (1899-1973)

Mar 26 English playwright (Hay Fever; Private Lives), director (In Which We Serve -1942 Academy Award), actor and singer, dies of heart failure at 73

Mar 26 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, dies at 67
Mar 27 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 72
Mar 27 Michael Kalatozov, Russian director and cinematographer (When the Cranes Fly), dies at 69
Mar 28 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
Mar 29 Melville Cooper, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Father of the Bride), dies of cancer at 76 [1]
Mar 31 Kurt Thomas, German composer, dies at 68
Apr 1 Arthur Wood, English cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests, 11 dismissals), dies at 74
Apr 1 Gus Aiken, American jazz and blues trumpeter (Jenkins Orphanage Band), dies at 70
Apr 2 Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor, dies at 74
Apr 5 John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
Apr 7 Nick Stuart, Romanian-born American bandleader and actor (Secrets of Chinatown), dies of cancer at 69

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Apr 8 Spanish painter (The Three Dancers, Guernica) and sculptor who co-founded the Cubist movement, dies at 91

Apr 11 (Edward) "Ted" de Corsia, American actor (The Naked City; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), dies at 69
Apr 13 A. A. M. Stols, Dutch publisher (Schoone Book), dies at 73
Apr 13 Balraj Sahni [Yudhishthir], Indian Bollywood actor (Dharti Ke Lal), dies of cardiac arrest at 59
Apr 14 Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
Apr 14 Minna Gombell, American actress dies at 80
Apr 16 István Kertész, Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor, dies at 43
Apr 20 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera), dies at 75
Apr 20 Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal philosopher and political philosopher, dies at 91
Apr 20 Robert Armstrong, American actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong), dies at 82
Apr 21 Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 79

Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973)

Apr 21 American film director and producer (King Kong) and aviator (Kościuszko Squadron, Director-Pan American Airways), dies of cancer at 79

Apr 21 Ursula Jeans, British actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon, I Lived With You), dies of cancer at 66
Apr 23 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
Apr 26 Irene Ryan [Noblitt], American actress (Beverly Hillbillies - "Granny"; Pippin), dies of an inoperable brain tumor at 70
Apr 27 Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver, dies at 57
Apr 27 Jim Sims, English cricket spin bowler (4 Tests, 11 wickets; Middlesex), dies at 69

Clas Thunberg (1893-1973)

Apr 28 Finnish speed skater (Olympic gold 1500m, 5000m, allround 1924; 500m, 1500m 1928), dies at 80

Apr 28 Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas), dies at 90
Apr 28 Pat Henning, American actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 64
Apr 29 Manfred Gurlitt, German composer, dies at 82
Apr 30 Josie Sedgwick, American actress (The Best Man, Queen of the Round-Up), dies of stroke at 75
Apr 30 Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator, dies at 61
May 2 Alan Carney [David Boughal], American actor (Zombies on Broadway, Take it from Me), dies at 61
May 2 June Hutton [Cowan], American pop vocalist (The Pied Pipers, 1944-50; Afterglow), dies at 52
May 4 Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
May 6 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian organist, conductor and composer, dies at 79
May 10 Jack E. Leonard, American comedian (Disorderly Orderly), dies at 62
May 10 Loren Tindall, American actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost), dies of a heart attack at 51
May 11 Grigory Kozintsev, Russian director, dies at 68
May 11 Lex Barker, American actor, dies at 53
May 12 Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
May 12 Frances Marion, American screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
May 14 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet, dies at 67
May 15 Willem Huibert Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Pandji), dies at 95
May 17 Alexander J. Kropholler, Dutch architect and writer, dies at 91

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)

May 18 American politician, 1st woman elected to US Congress (R-Montana), women's rights advocate and pacifist, dies at 92

May 20 Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
May 21 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer and writer (War Diary), dies at 79
May 21 George Breakston, French-American producer, actor and director (Jungle Stampede, It Happened One Night), dies at 53
May 21 Ivan Konev, Russian general (Marshal of the Soviet Union - led Red Army on WWII Eastern Front, commanded Warsaw Pact forces), dies at 75
May 21 Vaughn Monroe, American singer and orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
May 23 Athena Lorde, American actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies of cancer at 57
May 26 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish-French-American painter and cubist sculptor, dies at 81
May 28 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer and conductor (Hassan), dies at 73
May 29 Eric Applewhite, American actor (Dial M for Murder,), dies at 76
May 29 P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter, dies of a heart attack at 44
May 29 Voltaire "Volly" De Faut; American jazz reed player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings; Jean Goldkette), dies at 69
May 30 Hal Hastings, American orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
May 31 Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89
Jun 1 Harvey S. Firestone Jr, American tire manufacturer, dies at 75
Jun 1 Helen Parkhurst, American educator (The Dalton Plan), dies at 86
Jun 1 Mary Kornman, American actress ("Our Gang" shorts; The Desert Trail; Queen of the Jungle; Swing It, Professor), dies at 57
Jun 1 Walter Greaza, American actor (Treasury Man; Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 76
Jun 3 Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)

Jun 4 American poet and novelist who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, dies of a heart attack at 72

Jun 4 Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, American ultra-light hiking pioneer and 1st woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone, dies of an apparent heart attack at 85
Jun 4 Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
Jun 5 Max Terhune, American actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
Jun 7 Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
Jun 7 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
Jun 8 Christine Bakker-van Bosse, Dutch feminist and pacifist, dies at 88
Jun 8 Eino Linnala, Finnish composer, pedagogue, and musicologist dies at 76
Jun 8 Gerald F. Bogan, U.S. Navy aviator and vice admiral who served in World War I & II, dies at 78
Jun 9 Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
Jun 10 William M. Inge, American playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
Jun 13 Alvin Derold Etler, American oboist, and composer, dies at 60
Jun 13 Frantisek Suchy, Czech composer and folk song collector, dies at 82
Jun 17 Luis Van Rooten, Mexican-born, American actor, author and translator (One Man's Family), dies at 66

Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973)

Jun 17 Brazilian modernist artist, dies at 86

Jun 18 Fritz Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 71
Jun 18 Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who, Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June), dies in a road accident at 55
Jun 18 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
Jun 21 Frank Leahy, American football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
Jun 22 Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, dies at 77
Jun 23 Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
Jun 24 George "Bud" Hamilton Westmore, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), dies after a heart attack at 55
Jun 24 Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
Jun 26 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
Jun 26 Ernest Truex, American actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday, Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 83
Jun 27 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
Jun 29 Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), dies from cancer at 57
Jun 30 Elmer Layden, College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Notre Dame legendary 4-horsemen, 1st NFL Commissioner), dies at 70
Jun 30 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
Jun 30 Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Bishop and Catholic Martyr, dies under Soviet imprisonment at 70
Jul 1 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and musical instrument inventor (Hammond organ), dies at 78
Jul 1 Mario Labroca, Italian composer, dies at 76

Betty Grable (1916-1973)

Jul 2 American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56

Jul 2 Chick Hafey, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1926, 31 St. Louis Cardinals; NL batting champion 1931; MLB All Star 1933), dies at 70
Jul 2 Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, dies at 81
Jul 2 George Macready, American actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73
Jul 2 George McBride, American baseball shortstop (AL fielding leader 1912-15 Washington Senators) and manager (Washington Senators 1921), dies at 92
Jul 2 Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
Jul 3 Karel Ančerl, Czechoslovak conductor (Czech Philharmonic, 1950-68; Toronto Symphony, 1968-73), composer, and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 65
Jul 4 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
Jul 6 Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), dies after long illness at 80
Jul 6 Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1933-39), and composer (Das Ziel), dies at 88
Jul 6 Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
Jul 7 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (Studies in prejudice), dies at 78
Jul 7 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
Jul 8 Harry F. V. Edward, British 100m/200m runner (Olympic bronze 1920), dies at 75
Jul 8 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies at 95
Jul 10 Wallace "Bud" Smith, American boxer (World lightweight title 1955-56), dies of gunshot wounds at 49

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