Editing 1973 (section)

===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]])