Deaths Date 1973 July | History by KabAstro

Jul 1 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and musical instrument inventor (Hammond organ), dies at 78
Jul 1 Mario Labroca, Italian composer, dies at 76

Betty Grable (1916-1973)

Jul 2 American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56

Jul 2 Chick Hafey, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1926, 31 St. Louis Cardinals; NL batting champion 1931; MLB All Star 1933), dies at 70
Jul 2 Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, dies at 81
Jul 2 George Macready, American actor (Peyton Place - "Martin Payton"), dies at 73
Jul 2 George McBride, American baseball shortstop (AL fielding leader 1912-15 Washington Senators) and manager (Washington Senators 1921), dies at 92
Jul 2 Swede Savage, Amewrican race car driver, dies of injuries sustained in crash at Indianapolis 500, at 26
Jul 3 Karel Ančerl, Czechoslovak conductor (Czech Philharmonic, 1950-68; Toronto Symphony, 1968-73), composer, and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 65
Jul 4 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
Jul 6 Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), dies after long illness at 80
Jul 6 Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1933-39), and composer (Das Ziel), dies at 88
Jul 6 Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63

Jul 7 German philosopher and sociologist (Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason), dies at 78

Jul 7 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
Jul 8 Harry F. V. Edward, British 100m/200m runner (Olympic bronze 1920), dies at 75
Jul 8 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies at 95
Jul 10 Wallace "Bud" Smith, American boxer (World lightweight title 1955-56), dies of gunshot wounds at 49
Jul 11 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
Jul 11 Isabel Randolph, American actress (Fuller Brush Girl; Our Miss Brooks - "Mrs. Nestor"), dies at 83
Jul 11 Robert Ryan, American actor (Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Day), dies from lung cancer at 63
Jul 12 Lon Chaney Jr [Creighton Tull Chaney], American actor (Of Mice and Men; The Wolfman), dies of heart failure at 67
Jul 13 Marțian Negrea, Romanian conductor, composer (The Glacier from Scărișoara), and teacher, dies at 80
Jul 13 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies from a heart attack at 72
Jul 15 Clarence White, American session and country-rock guitarist (The Byrds, 1968-73 - "Ballad of Easy Rider"), struck and killed by a drunk driver at 29
Jul 16 Nine van de Schaaf, Dutch author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
Jul 18 Jack Hawkins, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story), dies of post-operative complications at 62
Jul 19 Vasily Dmitriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33

Jul 20 Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), dies of a cerebral edema at 32

Jul 20 Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
Jul 21 Russell Hardie, American actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky), dies after long illness at 69
Jul 23 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI), dies at 82
Jul 23 Marius-François Gaillard, French pianist (DeBussy), conductor and composer (La passion noire), dies at 72

Jul 28 Mary Ellen Chase, American educator and author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award), dies at 86
Jul 28 Royal Butler [Edwin Richey], American actor (Zenobia), dies at 80
Jul 29 Eileen Percy, Irish silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
Jul 29 Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
Jul 29 Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
Jul 30 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
Jul 30 Guy Middleton, British actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Laughter in Paradise), dies following a heart attack at 66