Aged 73
Famous people who died at 73
263 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 73, including Charles Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger and Federico Fellini. Here are the 100 best known.
- Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist · 1809–1882
- Erwin SchrödingerAustrian physicist · 1887–1961
- Federico FelliniItalian filmmaker · 1920–1993
- James MonroePresident of the United States from 1817 to 1825 · 1758–1831
- William Butler YeatsIrish poet and playwright · 1865–1939
- Jean de La FontaineFrench poet, fabulist and writer · 1621–1695
- Alexander FlemingScottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate · 1881–1955
- Antoni GaudíCatalan architect · 1852–1926
- Edward JennerEnglish physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination · 1749–1823
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general · 1922–1995
- Giacomo CasanovaVenetian adventurer and writer · 1725–1798
- Ray CharlesAmerican singer, pianist and songwriter · 1930–2004
- Charles BukowskiGerman-American writer · 1920–1994
- James BrownAmerican musician · 1933–2006
- Hans Christian ØrstedDanish physicist and chemist · 1777–1851
- Friedrich HölderlinGerman poet · 1770–1843
- Paul ValéryFrench poet, essayist, and philosopher · 1871–1945
- Camille PissarroDanish-French painter · 1830–1903
- Anaïs NinFrench-born American author · 1903–1977
- Nizami GanjaviPersian poet · c. 1141–1214
- Johann Strauss IIAustrian composer · 1825–1899
- M. C. EscherDutch graphic artist · 1898–1972
- Abigail AdamsFirst Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801 · 1744–1818
- Hermann von HelmholtzGerman physicist and physiologist · 1821–1894
- Tokugawa IeyasuFounder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan · 1543–1616
- Anne BancroftAmerican actress · 1931–2005
- Harry MartinsonSwedish writer · 1904–1978
- Vittorio De SicaItalian film director · 1901–1974
- Christoph Willibald von GluckOpera composer · 1714–1787
- Hormisdas6th-century Italian pope and bishop of Rome, Catholic and Orthodox saint, ended the Acacian Schism and reunited the Eastern and Western churches · c. AD 450–523
- CorneliusPope Saint · c. AD 180–253
- D. W. GriffithAmerican filmmaker · 1875–1948
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al NahyanPresident of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022 · 1948–2022
- Isabella II of SpainQueen of Spain from 1833 to 1868 · 1830–1904
- Omar BongoGabonese politician · 1935–2009
- Thomas KuhnAmerican historian, physicist and philosopher · 1922–1996
- Ignatius of AntiochLate 1st/early 2nd century Christian author and Patriarch of Antioch · c. AD 35–108
- Olivia Newton-JohnBritish and Australian singer · 1948–2022
- Sydney PollackAmerican film director, producer and actor · 1934–2008
- Yakub KolasBelarusian writer · 1882–1956
- Shinichiro TomonagaJapanese physicist · 1906–1979
- ZacharyPope · c. AD 679–752
- Alcide De GasperiItalian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party · 1881–1954
- Cai LunChinese official credited with inventing paper · c. AD 48–121
- Nasir al-Din al-TusiPersian astronomer · 1201–1274
- Dorothy ParkerAmerican poet, short story writer, critic and satirist · 1893–1967
- Gavrila DerzhavinRussian poet · 1743–1816
- Mehmed V35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1844–1918
- August BebelGerman social democrat politician · 1840–1913
- Nicholas RoerichRussian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher · 1874–1947
- Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFrench philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist · 1881–1955
- Élie DucommunSwiss activist · 1833–1906
- ShamilNorth Caucasian imam and warrior · 1797–1871
- Juscelino KubitschekPresident of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 · 1902–1976
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburyBritish politician and prime minister · 1830–1903
- Austen ChamberlainBritish politician · 1863–1937
- Bela LugosiHungarian-American actor · 1882–1956
- David NivenBritish actor and novelist · 1910–1983
- Ivana TrumpCzech-American businesswoman · 1949–2022
- Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ↗Russian composer, pianist, and conductor · 1837–1910
- Albrecht Kossel ↗German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics · 1853–1927
- Jonathan Demme ↗American filmmaker · 1944–2017
- William Penn ↗English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · 1644–1718
- Etta James ↗American singer · 1938–2012
- Giuseppe Peano ↗Italian mathematician · 1858–1932
- Melvin Schwartz ↗American experimental physicist · 1932–2006
- Willa Cather ↗American writer · 1873–1947
- Josemaría Escrivá ↗Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint · 1902–1975
- Ernst Chain ↗Jewish-German-born British biochemist · 1906–1979
- Jean-François Lyotard ↗French philosopher · 1924–1998
- Marija Gimbutas ↗Lithuanian-American archaeologist · 1921–1994
- Max Theiler ↗South African-American virologist and doctor · 1899–1972
- Bella Akhmadulina ↗Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator · 1937–2010
- Levi Eshkol ↗Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister · 1895–1969
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ↗Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer · 1778–1852
- Melina Mercouri ↗Greek actress, singer and politician. Minister of Culture of Greece · 1920–1994
- Rudolph I of Germany ↗Count of Habsburg, king of Germany · 1218–1291
- Bettina von Arnim ↗German writer and novelist · 1785–1859
- Gaston Doumergue ↗French lawyer and statesman · 1863–1937
- Georg von Békésy ↗Hungarian physicist · 1899–1972
- Kingsley Amis ↗English novelist, poet, critic and teacher · 1922–1995
- Leo I ↗Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474 · c. AD 401–474
- Martin Amis ↗British novelist · 1949–2023
- Proclus ↗5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher · AD 412–485
- Cesare Lombroso ↗Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist · 1835–1909
- Cole Porter ↗American composer and songwriter · 1891–1964
- Jerry Rawlings ↗Fourth President of the Republic of Ghana · 1947–2020
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg ↗Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer and poet · 1804–1877
- Lynn Margulis ↗American evolutionary biologist · 1938–2011
- Omar al-Mukhtar ↗Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation · 1858–1931
- Raymond Queneau ↗French novelist and poet · 1903–1976
- Chrysippus of Soli ↗Greek Stoic philosopher · c. 281–208 BC
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ↗Indian religious leader · 1835–1908
- Wilhelm Grimm ↗German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends · 1786–1859
- Paul-Henri Spaak ↗Belgian politician · 1899–1972
- Pierre Loti ↗French writer · 1850–1923
- Roy Lichtenstein ↗American pop artist · 1923–1997
- Sam Shepard ↗American playwright and actor · 1943–2017
- Samuel Richardson ↗English writer and printer · 1687–1761
- William Wilberforce ↗English politician and abolitionist · 1759–1833
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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