page_title: 1973
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1973 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Paavo Nurmi at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Suomi: Paavo Nurmi kesäolympialaisissa Antwerpenissa 1920
context_page_description: 1973 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: October 1 – Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1911)
  October 2
  Paul Hartman, American dancer and actor (b. 1904)
  Paavo Nurmi, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1897)
  October 6
  Boris Agapov, Soviet writer (b. 1899)
  Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
  François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
  October 8 – Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889)
  October 9 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer and guitarist (b. 1915)
  October 10 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
  October 12 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1899)
  October 14
  Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
  Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general who fought in Yom Kippur (b. 1929)
  October 16
  Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
  Thevarparampil Kunjachan, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1891)
  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 Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
  October 20 - Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo, American mobster for the Genovese crime family (b. 1902)
  October 22
  Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
  Matilda Alice Williams, Methodist deaconess (b. 1875)
  October 23 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad (writer), Malaysian nationalist writer
  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. 1928)
  Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
  October 30 – David Livschitz, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
caption: Paavo Nurmi
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