1973 in music

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Deaths

• January 16 - Clara Ward, gospel singer
• January 23 - Kid Ory
• February 19 - Joseph Szigeti, violinist
• March 5 - Michael Jeffrey, Jimi Hendrix's personal manager
• March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, Grateful Dead, stomach hemorrhage
• March 26 - Noel Coward, composer
• April 18 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith, US jazz pianist
• May 21 - Vaughn Monroe, US singer and bandleader
• July 3 - Betty Grable, US actress and singer
• July 3 - Karel An?erl, conductor
• July 6 - Otto Klemperer, conductor
• July 14 - Clarence White, guitarist The Byrds
• August 17 - Jean Barraqué, French classical composer
• September 6 - William Henry Harris, organist and composer
• September 17 - Hugo Winterhalter, US conductor and arranger
• September 19 - Gram Parsons, guitarist/vocalist
• September 20 - Jim Croce, singer
• October 16 - Gene Krupa, drummer
• October 22 - Pablo Casals, cellist
• November 11 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician
• November 18 - Alois Hába, composer
• November 27 - Frank Christian
• December 20 - Bobby Darin, singer
• December 31 - Emile Christian