Editing 1973 (section)

===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]])