Editing 1973 (section)

==Deaths==
{{BDToC|deaths}}

===January===
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[[File: Lyndon B. Johnson - Official White House Portrait (cropped).jpg |100px|thumb|[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Eleazar López Contreras]], 45th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Isabel Randolph]], American actress (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/isabel-randolph/ |title=Isabel Randolph : Classic Movie Hub (CMH) |via=www.classicmoviehub.com}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] – [[Nellie Yu Roung Ling]], Chinese dancer, lady-in-waiting to Qing Imperial Court (b. [[1882]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], 36th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Kid Ory]], American musician (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]] |editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]] |publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]] |date=1992 |edition=First |isbn=0-85112-580-8 |page=309/310}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[J. Carrol Naish]], American actor (b. [[1896]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Edward G. Robinson]], American actor (b. [[1893]])
* [[January 28]] – [[John Banner]], Austrian-born American actor (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 31]]  
** [[Ragnar Frisch]], Norwegian economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1895]])
** [[Jack MacGowran]], Irish film actor (b. [[1918]])

===February===
[[File:Jensen.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hans D. Jensen]]]]
* [[February 11]] – [[J. Hans D. Jensen]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 - J. Hans D. Jensen - Biographical |website=NobelPrize.org |date=25 June 1907 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/jensen/biographical/ |access-date=14 May 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – [[Wally Cox]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Francisco Caamaño]], 50th [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (executed) (b. [[1932]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Frank Costello]], Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 19]] 
** [[Ivan T. Sanderson]], Scottish-American naturalist, cryptozoologist and writer (b. [[1911]])
** [[Joseph Szigeti]], Hungarian violinist (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Elizabeth Bowen]], Irish novelist (b. [[1899]])
** [[Katina Paxinou]], Greek actress (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Dickinson W. Richards]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Cecil Kellaway]], South African actor (b. [[1890]])

===March===
[[File:Pearl Buck 1972.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pearl S. Buck]]]]
[[File:Noël Coward 01.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Noël Coward]]]]
* [[March 3]] – [[Vera Panova]], Soviet-Russian writer (b. [[1905]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Pearl S. Buck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1973 |page=163}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] – [[Benjamín de Arriba y Castro]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop and cardinal (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 10]] 
** [[Bull Connor]], American politician, civil rights opponent (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.biography.com/political-figures/eugene-bull-connor Eugene "Bull" Connor]</ref>
** [[Richard Sharples|Sir Richard Sharples]], British politician, [[Governor of Bermuda]]  (b. [[1916]]) (assassinated)
** [[Robert Siodmak]], German-born American film director (b. [[1900]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Howard H. Aiken]], American computing pioneer (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Aiken Howard Aiken American mathematician and inventor]</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[Giuseppe Ferretto]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1899]])
* [[March 18]]
** [[Johannes Aavik]], Estonian philologist (b. [[1880]])
** [[Lauritz Melchior]], Danish opera singer (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/20/archives/lauritz-melchior-is-dead-wagnerian-tenor-was-82-concealed-criticism.html |title=Lauritz Melchior Is Dead; Wagnerian Tenor Was 82 |date=20 March 1973 |author=Ey Alden Whitman |website=New York Times |access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Âşık Veysel]], Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-117857/asik-veysel-satiroglu.html Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu]</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[Hilda Geiringer]], Austrian mathematician (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Ken Maynard]], American actor (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music]] |editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]] |publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]] |date=1993 |edition=First |isbn=0-85112-726-6 |page=264}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Edward Steichen]], Luxembourg-born American photographer (b. [[1879]])
* [[March 26]] – Sir [[Noël Coward]], English composer and playwright (b. [[1899]])<ref>"Obituary: Sir Noel Coward", ''The Times'', 27 March 1973, p. 18</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton]], Scottish nobleman and aviation pioneer (b. [[1903]])<ref>[https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/d/douglasdouglashamilton.html 14TH DUKE OF HAMILTON]</ref>

===April===
[[File:Pablo picasso 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pablo Picasso]]]]
[[File:Arthur Fadden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arthur Fadden|Sir Arthur Fadden]]]]
* [[April 8]] – [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish artist (b. [[1881]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Arthur Freed]], American film producer (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 13]] 
** [[Henry Darger]], American [[outsider art]]ist and writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Darger |title=Henry Darger {{pipe}} Outsider Artist, Writer & Illustrator {{pipe}} Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=April 8, 2024 }}</ref>
** [[Dudley Senanayake]], 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Károly Kerényi]], Hungarian philologist and mythologist (b. [[1897]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Nino Bravo]], Spanish singer (b. [[1944]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cope.es/programas/la-manana-fin-de-semana/noticias/nino-bravo-una-voz-inolvidable-eterna-20190803_473159 |title=Nino Bravo: una voz inolvidable y eterna |first=Juan Andrés |last=Rubert |date=3 August 2019 |access-date=4 August 2019 |work=[[Cadena COPE]] |language=es}}</ref>
** [[István Kertész (conductor)|Istvan Kertesz]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1929]])<ref>"Obituary for István Kertész," ''The Musical Times'' 114, No. 1564 (1973), p. 632.</ref>
* [[April 19]] – [[Hans Kelsen]], Austrian-born legal theorist (b. [[1881]])
* [[April 21]]
** [[Merian C. Cooper]], American aviator, director and producer (b. [[1893]])
** [[Arthur Fadden|Sir Arthur Fadden]], Australian politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 25]]
** [[Fouad Chehab]], 8th President of Lebanon (b. [[1902]])
** [[Frank Jack Fletcher]], American admiral (b. [[1885]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Irene Ryan]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Jacques Maritain]], French Catholic philosopher (b. [[1882]])

===May===
[[File:Frances-Marion.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frances Marion]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Asger Jorn]], Danish painter (b. [[1914]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Myrna Fahey]], American actress (b. [[1933]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Alexander Vandegrift]], American general (b. [[1887]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Lex Barker]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Frances Marion]], American screenwriter (b. [[1888]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Sicherman |first=Barbara |author2=Hurd Green, Carol |title=Notable American Women: The Modern Period : A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=1980 |page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/457 457] |isbn=0-674-62732-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/457}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – [[Jacques Lipchitz]], French-American sculptor (b. [[1891]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Jeannette Rankin]], American politician (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Rep. Jeannette Rankin Dies. First Woman in Congress, 92 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9504E3D6153DE63ABC4851DFB3668388669EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=May 20, 1973 |access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] – [[Jarno Saarinen]], Finnish motorcycle racer (b. [[1945]])
* [[May 21]] 
** [[Ivan Konev]], [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Vaughn Monroe]], American singer (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Karl Löwith]], German philosopher (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Constantin Daicoviciu]], Romanian historian and archaeologist (b. [[1898]])

===June===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1995-041-23A, Ostfront, Adolf Hitler, Erich v. Manstein.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Erich von Manstein]]]]
* [[June 8]] – [[Emmy Göring]], German actress, second wife of [[Hermann Göring]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Erich von Manstein]], German field marshal (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 10]] – [[William Inge]], American playwright (b. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Inge's Funeral Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/12/archives/inges-funeral-today.html |access-date=24 April 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1973}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] – [[Nancy Mitford]], English novelist (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{ODNBweb |first=Selina |last=Hastings |title=Mitford, Nancy Freeman- (1904–1973) |origyear=2004 |year=2015 |edition=online |id=31450 }}</ref>

===July===
[[File:Betty Grable - 1951.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Betty Grable]]]]
[[File:Veronica Lake still.jpg|thumb|123x123px|[[Veronica Lake]]]]
[[File:Bruce Lee 1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bruce Lee]]]]
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* [[July 2]] – [[Betty Grable]], American actress (b. [[1916]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Karel Ančerl]], Czechoslovak conductor (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Joe E. Brown]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1891]])
** [[Otto Klemperer]], German conductor (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 7]]
** [[Max Horkheimer]], German philosopher and sociologist (b. [[1895]])
** [[Veronica Lake]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Arthur Calwell]], Australian politician (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calwell-arthur-augustus-9667 Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896–1973)]</ref>
** [[Ben-Zion Dinur]], Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. [[1884]])
** [[Wilfred Rhodes]], English cricketer (b. [[1877]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Cordelia Camp]], American educator (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Stephens |first=George Myers |date=1979 |title=Camp, Cordelia |encyclopedia=[[NCpedia]] |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/camp-cordelia |access-date=19 May 2024}}</ref>
* [[July 11]]
** [[Alexander Mosolov]], Russian composer (b. [[1900]])
** [[Robert Ryan]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Lon Chaney Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 13]] 
** [[Willy Fritsch]], German actor (b. [[1901]])
** [[Turk Scott]], American politician (assassinated)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Talbott |first1=William |last2=Schulian |first2=John |title=Del. Turk Scott Found Slain In Apartment House Garage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-sun-del-turk-scott-found-sl/169081587/ |access-date=March 28, 2025 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=July 13, 1973 |pages=1, 2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] – [[Jack Hawkins]], English actor (b. [[1910]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Mikhail Isakovsky]], Russian poet (b. [[1900]])
** [[Bruce Lee]], Chinese-American martial artist and actor (b. [[1940]])
** [[Robert Smithson]], American artist (b. [[1938]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Smithson, 35, A Sculptor, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/24/archives/robert-smithson-35-a-sculptor-is-dead.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |date=July 24, 1973 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – [[Eddie Rickenbacker]], American [[World War I]] flying ace and race car driver (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Julián Acuña Galé]], Cuban botanist (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 25]] 
** [[Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám]], Prime Minister of Hungary (b. [[1875]])
** [[Louis St. Laurent]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Konstantinos Georgakopoulos]], Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 29]]
** [[Henri Charrière]], French writer (b. [[1906]])
** [[Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo]], 34th [[President of El Salvador]] (b. [[1921]])
** [[Roger Williamson]], British racing driver (b. [[1948]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Annibale Bergonzoli]], Italian general (b. [[1884]])

===August===
[[File:Opvolger van Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Bestanddeelnr 911-5926 (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Walter Ulbricht]]]]
[[File:Fulgencio Batista, 1938.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Fulgencio Batista]]]]
[[File:Karl Ziegler Nobel.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Karl Ziegler]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Gian Francesco Malipiero]], Italian composer (b. [[1882]])
** [[Walter Ulbricht]], East German politician, leader of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Communist Party]] and 2nd [[State Council of East Germany|head of State]] of the [[GDR]] (b. [[1893]])
** [[Nikos Zachariadis]], Greek politician, leader of the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French film director (b. [[1917]])
* [[August 6]]
** [[Fulgencio Batista]], 9th and 12th [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1901]])
** [[James Beck]], British actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Vilhelm Moberg]], Swedish novelist and historian (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilhelm-Moberg Vilhelm Moberg Swedish author]</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Charles Daniels (swimmer)|Charles Daniels]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Peggie Castle]], American actress (b. [[1927]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Walter Rudolf Hess]], Swiss physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
** [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[Selman Waksman]], Ukrainian-American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Conrad Aiken]], American writer (b. [[1889]])
** [[Jean Barraqué]], French composer (b. [[1928]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Page |first=Tim |date=24 November 1986 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/24/arts/music-prism-orchestra-in-barraque-premiere.html |title=Music: Prism Orchestra in Barraqué Premiere |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 April 2017}}</ref>
** [[Paul Williams (The Temptations)|Paul Williams]], American singer ([[The Temptations]]) (b. [[1939]])
* [[August 18]] 
** [[François Bonlieu]], French Olympic alpine skier (b. [[1937]])
** [[Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough]], British politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Northern Ireland]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Michael Dunn (actor)|Michael Dunn]], American actor (b. [[1934]])
* [[August 31]] – [[John Ford]], American film director (b. [[1894]])

===September===
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[[File:Salvador Allende Gossens-.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Salvador Allende]]]]
[[File:Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden 1962.jpg|100px|thumb|King [[Gustaf VI Adolf|Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]]]]
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* [[September 1]] – [[Anne Azgapetian]], Russian Red Cross worker (b. [[1888]])<ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VM2N-748 "United States Social Security Death Index"]" database, FamilySearch, U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).</ref>
* [[September 2]] – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], British writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 September 1973 |title=J. R. R. Tolkien Dead at 81; Wrote 'The Lord of the Rings' |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-obit.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411062439/http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-obit.html |archive-date=11 April 2009}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – [[Salvador Allende]], 30th [[President of Chile]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Marjorie Merriweather Post]], American businesswoman (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Betty Field]], American actress (b. [[1916]])
* [[September 15]] – King [[Gustaf VI Adolf|Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[September 16]] 
** [[Rafael Franco]], 33rd [[President of Paraguay]] (b. [[1896]])
** [[Víctor Jara]], Chilean political activist and singer-songwriter (b. [[1932]])
** [[Al Sherman]], American [[Tin Pan Alley]] songwriter (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/people-places/4094372-al-sherman-1897-1873 Al, Sherman, 1897–1873]</ref>
* [[September 18]] – [[Théo Lefèvre]], 39th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Gram Parsons]], American musician (b. [[1946]])
* [[September 20]]
** [[Jim Croce]], American songwriter (b. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=84416&key=0&print=1 |title=NTSB Identification: FTW74AF017; 14 CFR Part 135 Nonscheduled operation of ROBERT AIRWAYS; Aircraft: BEECH E18S, registration: N50JR |date=1973-09-20 |publisher=[[NTSB]].gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208152047/http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=84416&key=0&print=1 |archive-date=December 8, 2011 |df=mdy}}</ref>
** [[Glenn Strange]], American actor (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/22/archives/glenn-strange-actor-dies-was-gunsmoke-bartender.html Glenn Strange, Actor, Dies; Was ‘Gunsmoke’ Bartender]</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[Paul van Zeeland]], 29th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Pablo Neruda]], Chilean poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1904]])<ref>"Pablo Neruda, Nobel Poet, Dies in a Chilean Hospital", ''The New York Times'', 24 September 1973.</ref>
* [[September 24]] – [[Josué de Castro]], Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Anna Magnani]], Italian actress (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Norma Crane]], American actress (b. [[1928]])
* [[September 29]] – [[W. H. Auden]], English poet (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Israel |last=Shrenker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/30/archives/w-h-auden-dies-in-vienna-w-h-auden-dies-in-vienna-at-the-age-of-66.html |title=W. H. Auden Dies in Vienna |date=30 September 1973 |access-date=20 September 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>

===October===
[[File:Paavo Nurmi in a calisthenic pose.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Paavo Nurmi]]]]
[[File:Ludwig von Mises.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ludwig von Mises]]]]
[[File:Abebe Bikila, 1972 card.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abebe Bikila]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[Paavo Nurmi]], Finnish Olympic athlete (b. [[1897]])
* [[October 6]] – [[François Cevert]], French racing driver (b. [[1944]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Gabriel Marcel]], French Catholic existential thinker (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], American singer and guitarist (b. [[1915]])<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1974 |title=Rosetta Nubin (Sister) Tharpe |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1214272 |journal=The Black Perspective in Music |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=227 |jstor=1214272 |issn=0090-7790}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Ludwig von Mises]], Austrian economist (b. [[1881]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Edmund A. Chester]], American broadcaster and journalist (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/16/archives/edmund-chester-75-exdirectoratcbs.html EDMUND CHESTER, 75, EX-DIRECTORAT C.B.S.]</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Gene Krupa]], American jazz drummer (b. [[1909]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], Austrian poet and author (b. [[1926]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Leo Strauss]], German-American political philosopher (b. [[1899]])
** [[Walt Kelly]], American cartoonist (b. [[1913]])
** [[Crane Wilbur]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Margaret C. Anderson]], American magazine publisher (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal]], [[prime minister of Afghanistan]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Pablo Casals]], Spanish cellist and conductor (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Abebe Bikila]], Ethiopian Olympic athlete (b. [[1932]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Semyon Budyonny]], Cossack cavalryman and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Allan Lane]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[October 28]] 
** [[Cleo Moore]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
** [[Taha Hussein]], Egyptian writer (b. [[1889]])

===November===
[[File:Arturo de Córdova postcard photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arturo de Córdova]]]]
[[File:Virtanen.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]]]]
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* [[November 3]] 
** [[Arturo de Córdova]], Mexican actor (b. [[1908]])
** [[Marc Allégret]], French film director (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Kiyohide Shima]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Morton Deyo]], American admiral (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-d/deyo-morton-lyndholm.html |title=Deyo, Morton Lyndholm |website=NHHC}}</ref>
* [[November 11]]
** [[Hassan al-Hudaybi]], Egyptian general (b. [[1891]])
** [[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]], Finnish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Wacław Stachiewicz]], Polish writer, geologist and general (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 13]] 
** [[B. S. Johnson]], English experimental novelist (b. [[1933]])
** [[Lila Lee]], American actress (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/14/archives/lila-lee-68-dies-silent-film-star-darkeyed-actress-caught-publics.html |title=Lila Lee, 68, Dies; Silent Film Star |work=The New York Times |date=November 14, 1973 |access-date=February 11, 2020 |via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
** [[Bruno Maderna]], Italian conductor and composer (b. [[1920]])
** [[Elsa Schiaparelli]], Italian fashion designer (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Alan Watts]], British philosopher (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 17]]  – [[Mirra Alfassa]], multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of [[Auroville]], India (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/mother/ |title=The Mother |website=www.sriaurobindoashram.org}}</ref>
* [[November 18]] – [[Alois Hába]], Czech composer and musicologist (b. [[1893]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Allan Sherman]], American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (b. [[1924]])
* [[November 23]]
** [[Sessue Hayakawa]], Japanese-born American actor and film director (b. [[1886]])
** [[Constance Talmadge]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Albert DeSalvo]], American criminal, suspect in the [[Boston Strangler]] case (b. [[1931]])
** [[Laurence Harvey]], English actor (b. [[1928]])
* [[November 28]] – [[John Rostill]], English bassist, musician and composer ([[The Shadows]]) (b. [[1942]])

===December===
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* [[December 1]] – [[David Ben-Gurion]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Adolfo Ruiz Cortines]], 47th [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6004/Adolfo%20Ruiz%20Cortines |title=Adolfo Ruiz Cortines |publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es |access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Lauri Lehtinen]], Finnish Olympic athlete (b. [[1908]])
* [[December 5]] – Sir [[Robert Watson-Watt]], Scottish engineer, [[radar]] pioneer (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Atilio García]], Argentine-born Uruguayan footballer (b. [[1914]])
** [[Naokuni Nomura]], Japanese admiral and Minister of the Navy (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/72291/Nomura-Naokuni.htm |title=Nomura, Naokuni |website=Traces of War |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[Giuseppe Beltrami]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Sid Barnes]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1916]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Charles Greeley Abbot]], American astrophysicist (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Greeley-Abbot |title=Charles Greeley Abbot American astrophysicist |date=January 30, 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 20]]
** [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], Spanish admiral and politician, 69th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1904]])
** [[Bobby Darin]], American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter (b. [[1936]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 21, 1973 |title=Bobby Darin, Pop Singer, Dies at 37 |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/21/archives/bobby-darin-pop-singer-dies-at-37-young-man-in-a-hurry-became-adult.html |access-date=December 24, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[James Anderson (tennis)|James Anderson]], Australian tennis champion (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Gerard Kuiper]], Dutch-born American astronomer (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Fritz Gause]], German historian (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/fritz-gause/ |title=Fritz Gause |website=www.vle.lt |language=lt}}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** [[İsmet İnönü]], Turkish general and statesman, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] and 2nd [[President of Turkey]] during World War II (b. [[1884]])
** [[Gabriel Voisin]], French aviation pioneer (b. [[1880]])
* [[December 26]] 
** [[William Haines]], American actor (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.liliums-compendium.co.uk/post/william-haines-muses-the-beau-monde William Haines - Muses & the Beau Monde]</ref>
** [[Harold B. Lee]], American president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Marcel-Bruno Gensoul]], French admiral (b. [[1880]])