List of deceased in 1973

• January 2 - Malik Gabdullin (57) - Kazakh Soviet scientist-teacher, writer, acting member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
• January 4 - Peter Belokon - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 5 - Isaac Dobrinsky (81) - French painter, landscape painter, portrait painter.
• January 6 - Ivan Korolkov (57) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 6 - Gennady Petrenko (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 7 - Yuri Borolych (51) is a Ukrainian and Czechoslovak writer who lived and worked in Czechoslovakia.
• January 7 - Yakov Nikonenko (61) - a veteran of World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 8 - Khamit Kobikov - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 8 - Nikolai Yurkovski (53) - a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 10 - Arkady Gegeshidze (70) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 10 - George Dreyband (73) - member of the CPSU , economic figure.
• January 13 - Julia Ryabchinskaya (25) - Soviet canoeist, Olympic champion in 1972 and world champion in 1971, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
• January 15 - Ivan Petrovsky (71) - Soviet mathematician , from 1951 to 1973 the rector of the Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov .
• January 17 - Dmitry Isaevich (83) - Ukrainian public and political activist, member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, journalist.
• January 18 - Irina Levchenko (48) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 19 - Ivan Slavyansky (67) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 20 - Anton Bozhok (85) - member of the CPSU , party activist, participant of the Civil War in Russia and the Second World War .
• January 20 - Amilcar Cabral (48) - a politician of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde , one of the founders of the PAIGC and its general secretary; killed
• January 22 - Boris Alexandrov (83) - Soviet hydraulic engineer, professor and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• January 22 - Alexander Javakhishvili (97) - an outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist.
• January 22 - Lyndon Johnson (64) - the 36th President of the United States .
• January 22 - Yaakov Dory (73) - Israeli military leader, first chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
• January 23 - Alexander Vorontsov (65) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 24 - Igor Udaltsov (44) - Russian horn player and music teacher.
• January 25 - Heinrich Steinberg (73) - Soviet commander, engineer-rear admiral.
• January 28 - Vladimir Belokurov (68) - theater and film actor, teacher , People's Artist of the USSR ( 1965 ).
• January 28 - Mikhail Vlasov (76) - Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the First World, Civil and Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• January 28 - Fyodor Lopukhov (86) - Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1956), Honored Choreographer of the RSFSR (1928).
• January 30 - Levan Gotua (67) - Soviet and Georgian writer.
• January 30 - Ivan Savchenko (47) - Full Chevalier of the Order of Glory.
• January 30 - Fedor Shapiro (58) - Soviet physicist.

• February 2 - Alexander Yurlov (45) - Soviet choir conductor.
• February 3 - Leiba Solomin (59) - the leader of the Lithuanian revolutionary movement, the guerrillas of the Great Patriotic War.
• February 5 - Nikolay Popov - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 7 - Mikhail Fatyanov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 8 - David Talmud (72) - Soviet chemist.
• February 8 - Georgy Tarasov (68) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 11 - Ivan Khokhlov (77) - Soviet state and party leader. From 1940 to 1943 the chairman of the SNK RSFSR.
• February 12 - Mikhail Sachkov (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 12 - German Shulyatin (66) - Soviet director and documentary film operator.
• February 15 - Ivan Tsymbal (68) - captain, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 16 - Gevorg Kochar (71) - Honored Architect of the Armenian SSR.
• February 16 - Sergey Sorokin (62) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 16 - Peter Spirin (61) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 17 - Grigory Gromov (32) - Soviet state and party leader, secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) (1938).
• February 18 - Grigory Chirkov (53) - Hero of the Soviet Union, deprived of his title.
• February 19 - Ivan Belyaev (49) - Major, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 20 - Alexey Sukhorukov (56) - Major, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 21 - Ivan Ovcharenko (58) - Soviet military leader.
• February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen (73) - Anglo-Irish writer, author of novels, collections of short stories, books of memoirs and literary essays.
• February 22 - Winthrop O. Rockefeller (60) - American politician and philanthropist; pancreas cancer.
• February 24 - Grigory Vakhonin (53) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 24 - Pavel Kitchenko (59) - Lieutenant Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 25 - Boris Ioganson (79) - Soviet painter.
• February 26 - Alexander Perfilyev (77) - Russian Latvian poet, publicist, literary critic.
• February 27 - Leonid Serpilin (60) - Soviet, Ukrainian writer, architect, journalist.
• February 27 - Stepan Shkurat (87) - Soviet actor , Honored Artist of the RSFSR ( 1935 ).
• February 28 - Ashot Grashi (62) - Soviet and Armenian poet
• February 28 - Dmitry Kozlov (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• February 28 - Evgeny Sokovnin (68) - Soviet opera director and teacher.

No exact dates

• Ivan Kesinov (84) - a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , the head of the fire brigade divisions of Railway Railway, a mechanic of railway workshops

• March 1 - Lev Artsimovich (64) - an outstanding Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• March 2 - David Einhorn - Jewish poet, playwright and publicist. He wrote in Yiddish.
• March 3 - Nikolai Nikitin (65) - Soviet architect and scientist in the field of building structures.
• March 3 - Vera Panova (67) - Russian Soviet writer, playwright, scriptwriter.
• March 5 - Alexander Askochensky (74) - a major Soviet scientist in hydraulic engineering.
• March 5 - Vasily Smirnov (58) - Soviet scientist-metallurgist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• March 6 - Alexander Ptushko (72) - Soviet film director , screenwriter and artist , master of fairy-tale genre in cinema , People's Artist of the USSR .
• March 10 - Robert Siodmak (72) - American director of German descent, the elder brother of the writer and screenwriter Kurt Siodmak .
• March 11 - Vasily Bondarenko (49) - Major of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 11 - Vladimir Vavilov (47) - composer, author of the song “ The City of Gold ”.
• March 14 - Kuzma Galitsky (75) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 14 - Nikolay Geladze (72) - Hero of Socialist Labor.
• March 16 - Mykolas Yunchas-Kuchinskas (79) - Lithuanian Soviet party and state leader.
• March 18 - Johannes Aavik (92) - Estonian linguist, reformer of the Estonian language.
• March 18 - Efim Kogan (52) - Soviet chess player and coach.
• March 18 - Timothy Maximov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 22 - Peter Gubarev - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 23 - Petr Edelev (63) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 23 - Nikolai Kudryashov (50) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 25 - Sergey Kolesnikov (68) - Soviet commander, major general of artillery.
• March 25 - Alexander Orlov (77) - Soviet intelligence officer, major of state security.
• March 26 - Mikhail Kalatozov (69) - Soviet film director , screenwriter , People's Artist of the USSR .
• March 26 - Noel Kaward (73) - English playwright, actor, composer and director.
• March 27 - Dmitry Jilin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 27 - Andrei Ignatiev (72) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 28 - Joseph Serdyukov (66) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• March 29 - Konstantin Alkalayev (71) - Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Rector of the Irkutsk Medical Institute.
• March 29 - Igor Muratov (60) - Ukrainian Soviet writer.
• March 30 - Vladimir Dedyushko (68) - Soviet actor, People's Artist of the USSR .
• March 30 - Dmitry Dontsov - Doctor of Law.
• March 30 - Stepan Kucherov (70) - Soviet naval leader, admiral.
• March 30 - Andrei Kuchkin (84) - member of the CPSU , party leader, participant of the Civil War in Russia.

• April 2 - Yasha Gorenstein (74) - American conductor of Russian origin.
• April 3 - Mikhail Grishko (72) - Soviet and Ukrainian opera singer (baritone).
• April 3 - Ivan Gudimov (65) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 3 - Tikhon Kotsyubinsky (65) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 3 - Georgy Latyshev (66) - physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1958), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948), doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor (1940), winner of the Stalin Prize (1949).
• April 3 - Makar Posmitny (78) - Twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
• April 5 - Boris Kazansky (82) - Soviet organic chemist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• April 5 - Mikhail Korolev (78) - Soviet commander, lieutenant-general of the Soviet army, member of five wars.
• April 5 - Alla Tarasova (75) - People's Artist of the USSR.
• April 6 - Ignas Gashka (81) - Founder of the Communist Party of Lithuania, member of the CPSU , state and party leader.
• April 7 - Nikolai Biyazi (80) - Soviet commander, athlete, writer, lieutenant general. The founder of the formation of professions military translator and military judge.
• April 8 - Pablo Picasso (91) - artist of the XX century .
• April 8 - Fedor Tyunin (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 10 - Jacob Sternberg (82) - Jewish avant-garde poet, essayist, playwright, theater director, and theater theorist.
• April 11 - Andrei Girich (54) - Major General of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 11 - Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy (60) - Russian Soviet classical guitarist, composer, conductor, teacher, honored artist of the RSFSR.
• April 12 - Boris Sakharov (59) - Soviet chess composer; master of sports of the USSR.
• April 13 - Henry Darger (81) - American illustrator and writer.
• April 13 - Sergei Feoktistov (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 13 - Alexey Cherkasov - Soviet writer and prose writer.
• April 14 - Alexey Pakhomov (72) - Soviet graphic artist and painter.
• April 14 - Sergey Skazkin (82) - Soviet historian, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• April 16 - Grigory Bulatov (47) - participant in the storming of the Reichstag.
• April 16 - Istvan Keres - Hungarian conductor.
• April 18 - Mikhail Kamensky (93) - Russian and Polish astronomer, corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• April 18 - Sabit Mukanov (72) - a classic of Kazakh literature, poet, public figure, academician.
• April 19 - Nikolay Gorban (73) - Soviet historian, archivist, writer.
• April 20 - Nikolai Simonov (71) - Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
• April 20 - Grigory Sokolov (68) - Soviet commander, Lieutenant General.
• April 21 - Gregory Vasyanin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 21 - Arthur William Fadden (78) - Australian statesman, Australian Prime Minister (1941).
• April 22 - Peter Kosenko (71) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 23 - Ilya Avramenko (65) - Soviet Leningrad poet and writer.
• April 23 - Vikenty Gryaznov (44) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 25 - Boris Borisov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 26 - George Arutyunyants (47) - an underground worker and a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a member of the anti-fascist organization "Young Guard".
• April 26 - Ivan Semenyuk (56) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 27 - Ivan Drizhenko (57) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• April 27 - Yakov Telechenko (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.

No exact dates

• Ilya Ilyin (80) is a member of the CPSU , a state and party leader, a member of the Civil War in Russia, repressed and imprisoned.

• May 1 - Alexander Bisk - Russian poet, translator.
• May 3 - Boris Alekseev (66) - Soviet theater actor, People's Artist of the USSR
• May 4 - Ivan Piskaryov (42) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 9 - Alesker Shahbazov (75) - member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , party leader.
• May 10 - Byubyusara Beyshenaliyeva (45) - Soviet Kyrgyz ballerina, People’s Artist of the USSR.
• May 11 - Grigory Kozintsev (68) - Soviet film and theater director, screenwriter , teacher, People's Artist of the USSR ( 1964 ).
• May 11 - Salchak Toka (72) - Soviet state and party leader, member of the CPSU .
• May 14 - Leopold Levytsky (66) - Ukrainian graphic artist and painter. Honored Artist of the USSR.
• May 15 - Gavril Yevseyev - Major of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 15 - Alexander Tarasov (80) - member of the CPSU , candidate of economic sciences , party leader, participant of the Civil War in Russia
• May 17 - Ivan Andreev (76) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Smolensk Provincial Council (1919).
• May 18 - Abraham Shlyonsky (73) - Jewish poet.
• May 19 - Jacob Golubev (59) - Russian Soviet painter, landscape painter.
• May 19 - Jacob Zaitsev (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 19 - Fedor Ivanov (75) - Soviet commander, Lieutenant General.
• May 19 - Dmitry Skvortsov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 20 - Mykolas Vaytkus (89) - Lithuanian poet and playwright .
• May 21 - Ivan Konev (75) - Soviet commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union.
• May 25 - Vasyl Derkach (78) - Ukrainian Soviet microbiologist.
• May 25 - Vyacheslav Filatov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 26 - Jacques Lipschitz (81) - French sculptor.
• May 27 - Mikhail Millionshchikov (60) - Soviet physicist, academician and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• May 27 - David Shub (85) - activist of the Russian Social-Democratic movement, then the Jewish socialist movement in the USA, publicist, historian. He wrote in Yiddish, Russian and English.
• May 28 - Fedor Petrov (96) - revolutionary, soviet state and party leader. Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1961, 1971).
• May 28 - Kazimir Shakhov-Lankovsky (77) - a member of the CPSU , a military leader and a law enforcement officer, a retired colonel, a member of the Civil War in Russia.
• May 29 - Mikhail Mashintsev (63) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• May 29 - Eduard Eyman (81) - member of the CPSU , economic leader.
• May 31 - Pavel Korshunov (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.

• June 1 - Jacob Golubev-Kritser (69) - Soviet military leader, colonel.
• June 1 - Alexander Savitsky (86) - Soviet oncologist surgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences .
• June 3 - Mikhail Grishko (72) - Soviet opera singer (dramatic baritone), People's Artist of the USSR .
• June 3 - Mikhail Kozlov (44) - a participant in the Civil and World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 4 - Leonid Stein (38) - Soviet chess player, grandmaster.
• June 6 - Konstantin Grishin (70) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Ryazan Regional Committee of the CPSU (1964-1967).
• June 6 - Andrei Filatov - Hero of Socialist Labor.
• June 7 - Boris Dvinsky (79) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar - Minister of Procurement of the USSR (1944-1950).
• June 7 - Alexander Ponomarev (55) - Soviet football player and football coach, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
• June 8 - Fedor Gorovoy (57) - Soviet historian.
• June 8 - Kirill Krasnov (70) - railwayman, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• June 8 - Natalia Polonskaya-Vasilenko - Ukrainian immigrant historian, full member of the Scientific Society. Shevchenko.
• June 9 - Erich von Manstein (85) - German Field Marshal , a member of the First and Second World Wars .
• June 12 - Tsolak Yedigoryan (58) - Soviet statesman and military leader, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• June 12 - Vladimir Sukhobokov (62) - Soviet film director.
• June 12 - Mikhail Fursov (46) - Full Chevalier of the Order of Glory.
• June 13 - Jonas Aistis (68) - Lithuanian poet.
• June 13 - Trofim Lomakin (48) - Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952), two-time world champion.
• June 13 - Pavel Lukyanenko (72) - Soviet breeder, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• June 14 - Alexander Kolchin (50) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 15 - Malik Abdurazakov (54) - Soviet politician, Minister of Procurement of the Uzbek SSR (1970-1973), 1st secretary of the Tashkent Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan (1964-1970).
• June 15 - August Abel (85) - member of the CPSU , member of the Civil War in Russia and the Second World War .
• June 16 - Ivan Burmakov (73) - Lieutenant-General of the Soviet Army, member of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 16 - Alexander Kuznetsov (74) - a member of the CPSU , an energy activist, a member of the Civil War in Russia.
• June 17 - Andrei (Sukhenko) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen.
• June 17 - Mikhail Spirov (80) - Kiev anatomist, famous lymphologist, professor at the Kiev Medical Institute.
• June 19 - Andrei Grabchak (62) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, commander of a partisan unit. Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 19 - Viktor Nabutov (56) - Soviet football player, goalkeeper, later - radio and TV commentator.
• June 20 - Alexander Bezymensky (75) - Soviet poet.
• June 22 - Alexander Butko (67) - Soviet military leader, Colonel. Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 22 - Mikhail Denisov (71) - Soviet state and party leader, People’s Commissar of the Chemical Industry of the USSR (1939-1942).
• June 22 - Gregory Zhulega (52) - Full holder of the Order of Glory.
• June 22 - Ivan Tumanov (49) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 22 - Semyon Tumanov (51) - Soviet director and screenwriter.
• June 23 - Alexey Lyapunov (61) - an outstanding Soviet mathematician.
• June 25 - Aron Gurvich (72) - philosopher, historian of science, sociologist, representative of phenomenology.
• June 26 - Alexander Bezymensky (75) - Russian Soviet poet.
• June 27 - Alexey Afrikanov (66) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 27 - Ignatiy Yasyukovich (52) - Polish actor of theater, cinema, radio and television.
• June 28 - Ilya Vilensky (77) - Ukrainian Soviet composer and public figure.
• June 28 - Pavel Kuleykin (63) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• June 28 - Sydor Moroz (73) - Soviet Azeri grower, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• June 29 - Jan Krastyn (85) - member of the CPSU , party leader, participant of the Civil War in Russia.
• June 29 - Karlis Pluksne (67) - Latvian and Soviet architect.
• June 30 - Vasily Velichkovsky (70) - Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop, blessed martyr.

• July 2 - Betty Grable (56) - American actress .
• July 3 - Arif al-Arif is a Palestinian politician who was mayor of East Jerusalem from 1950 to 1951.
• July 4 - Ivan Chvykov (65) - Soviet commander, colonel.
• July 5 - Jan Rallet (81) - member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , party, industrial and revolutionary activist.
• July 5 - Anse Freiman (85) - member of the CPSU , educator, as well as economic figure.
• July 6 - Grigory Ionnisiani (85) - member of the CPSU , party leader.
• July 7 - Georgy Akhvlediani (86) - Soviet and Georgian orientalist and linguist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR , Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• July 8 - Vasily Makarov (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 9 - Kurmanbek Dzhandarbekov (68) - Soviet Kazakh opera singer.
• July 11 - Averky Aristov (69) - Soviet state and party leader, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU
• July 11 - Ludwik Gintel (73) - Polish footballer of Jewish origin, an attacker from the Yutzhenka (Kraków) and Cracovia clubs, a national team player, a participant in the Olympic Games.
• July 11 - Nikolai Krasilnikov (77) - Soviet microbiologist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• July 11 - Ivan Motorny - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 12 - Mikhail Kalinin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 12 - Alexander Mosolov (72) - Russian composer .
• July 16 - Bronislav Dombrovsky (88) - zoologist, morphologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR.
• July 17 - Alexander Milchakov (69) - Soviet Komsomol, party and economic leader.
• July 19 - Nikolai Gufailov (48) - Full Chevalier of the Order of Glory.
• July 20 - Mikhail Isakovsky (73) - Soviet poet, songwriter "Katyusha", "An order was given to him - to the West ...", "In the frontline forest", "Lonely accordion", etc.
• July 20 - Bruce Lee ( eng. Bruce Lee , 32), master of martial arts, American and Hong Kong actor, director, director of fighting scenes.
• July 20 - Fedor Potemkin (88) - Soviet historian, doctor of historical sciences , professor, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• July 20 - Alexander Olshevsky (52) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 24 - Maris Rudzitis (40) - Soviet, Latvian film director and cameraman
• July 25 - Semyon Afanasyev (67) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 25 - Tsipa Fradkina (76) - a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , party and trade union leader, died the day after her birthday.
• July 25 - Fedor Kharitonov (70) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 27 - Nikolay Lobyrin (52) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• July 28 - Mary Ellen Chase (born 1887 ), American writer, scholar, and educator.
• July 29 - Henri Sharrier (66) - French writer.
• July 30 - Joseph Shikin (67) - Soviet state and party leader.
• July 31 - Victor Bykovsky (54) - Major of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.

• August 1 - Walter Ulbricht (80) - German statesman, 1st General Secretary of the SED , 1st Chairman of the State Council of the GDR .
• August 2 - Mikhail Barkov (56) - Junior Sergeant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 2 - Jean-Pierre Melville (55) - French film director and screenwriter .
• August 3 - Anatoly Andreev (73) - Soviet commander, lieutenant general.
• August 5 - M. Ageev (Mark Lazarevich Levi) (74) - Russian writer.
• August 6 - Fulgencio Batista (72) - the Cuban ruler: the actual military leader in 1933 - 1940 , the legitimate president in 1940 - 1944 , the dictator (took the office of president in a coup) from 1952 until January 1, 1959 .
• August 8 - Wilhelm Mberg (74) - writer, playwright and journalist.
• August 8 - Leonid Sretensky (71) - Soviet mathematician and mechanic.
• August 10 - Semyon Butenin (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 10 - Gennady Demyanov (52) - a well-known teacher, a teacher of mathematics.
• August 10 - Stanislav Poplavsky (71) - General of the Soviet and Polish armies, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 11 - Georgy Gubanov (65) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 12 - Walter Hess (92) - Swiss physiologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for 1949 (together with Egasch Monisch ).
• August 13 - Victor Yakubovsky (76) - Polish philologist-Slavic.
• August 16 - Pavel Ponomarev (69) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 17 - Zinaida Bochantseva (66) - Soviet botanist, cytologist and embryologist.
• August 17 - Nikolay Dragunov (49) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 17 - Stepan Saenko (87) - security officer, commandant of Kharkiv Cheka.
• August 18 - Leonid Kuvshinov (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 19 - Petr Vasyunin (76) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, rear admiral.
• August 19 - Peter Lytanov (48) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 19 - Jacob Feigin (70) - Soviet economist-geographer.
• August 19 - Arthur Fonvizin (90) - Soviet watercolor painter.
• August 20 - Austra Asare (82) - member of the CPSU , party and economic activist.
• August 20 - Abram Lubanov (85) - Jewish religious and public figure, chief rabbi of Leningrad since 1943.
• August 22 - Sergey Nilovsky (67) - Lieutenant General, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 25 - David Bibergan (70) - Soviet military and statesman.
• August 26 - Ivan Kharitonov (48) - Soviet machine builder, fitter, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• August 27 - Sergey Andolenko (66) - French Brigadier General.
• August 27 - Konstantin Gabdank (80) - member of the CPSU , state and party leader, a participant in the Second World War , wrote a number of books and essays on the Second World War .
• August 27 - Vladimir Moiseenko (47) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• August 28 - Evgeny Blazhevsky (89) - Twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
• August 28 - Yuri Nikolaev (64) - Major General of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War. Major General of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War.
• August 30 - Anna Almaty (90) - Russian, Soviet writer.
• August 31 - Gregory Razran (72) - American psychologist and researcher in the field of psychology of influence, translator.
• August 31 - Mikhail Shargorodsky (69) - Soviet legal scholar, criminologist, doctor of legal sciences, professor.
• August 31 - John Ford (79) - American film director and writer.

• September 2 - Shirali Muslimov (168) - Azerbaijani shepherd, who allegedly lived for 168 years.
• September 2 - John Ronald Ruel Tolkien (81) - English writer, linguist, philologist, author of the famous Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• September 3 - Nikolai Pechersky (58) - Soviet children's writer.
• September 5 - Herzel Novogrudsky (69) - Russian Soviet journalist, writer.
• September 5 - Mikhail Prosvirnin (61) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 6 - Mikhail Starokadomsky - Russian theologian.
• September 7 - Lev Vladimirsky (69) - Soviet commander, admiral. During World War II - one of the commanders of the Black Sea Fleet.
• September 8 - Rafael Israelyan (64) - Armenian architect.
• September 9 - Sergei Tumansky (72) - Soviet designer of aircraft engines.
• September 9 - Georgiy Tsereteli (68) - Georgian scientist, founder of the Georgian School of Oriental Studies.
• 10 сентября — Евгений Бабский (71) — советский физиолог.
• September 11 - Salvador Allende (65) - Chilean statesman and political figure, President of Chile in 1970 - 1973 ; killed
• September 13 - Nikolai Burka (56) - Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 13 - Grigory Kiba (50) - Senior Sergeant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 14 - Stepan Mykal (49) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 15 - Victor Hara (40) - Chilean poet , theater director , singer and political activist; shot
• September 15 - Gustav VI Adolf (90) - King of Sweden from 1950 until the end of life.
• September 15 - Ivan Perminov (53) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 16 - Nikolay Nikitin (51) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 19 - Ivan Fonarev (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 20 - Daniel Didenko (56) - Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Army, member of the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 20 - George Komarov (68) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 20 - Alexander Poskonkin (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 21 - Pavel Delvin (71) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Aktobe Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (1955-1958).
• September 21 - Lydia Ruslanova (72) - singer, performer of Russian folk songs.
• September 22 - Ivan Koryakovsky (60) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 23 - Abylai Alimbetov (52) - Soviet officer, colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 23 - Stepan Bazyaev (58) - Full Companion of the Order of Glory.
• September 23 - Pablo Neruda (69) - Chilean poet , diplomat and political activist, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
• September 24 - Nikolai Zhukov (65) - Soviet schedule.
• September 26 - Kapai Iskakov (67) - Sergeant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 26 - Safa Khasanov (57) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 28 - Mikhail Navashin (77) - Russian cytologist and cytogenetic.
• September 29 - Ekaterina Verulashvili (56) - Soviet Georgian actress, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR.
• September 29 - Anatoly Nefedov (58) - Colonel of the Soviet Army, member of the Soviet-Finnish, Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• September 29 - Wisten Hugh Oden (66) - English poet , who had a great influence on the literature of the XX century .

• October 1 - Daniel Bely (75) - Soviet commander, major general of tank forces. Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 1 - Pavel Kuznetsov (57) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 1 - Mikhail Siyanin (71) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 2 - Peter Konstantinov (74) - Soviet theater and film actor, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1950), People's Artist of the USSR.
• October 2 - Klimenty Putrus (75) - member of the CPSU , economic leader, participant of the Civil War in Russia and the Second World War .
• October 4 - Peter Bogdanov (63) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 4 - Oleg Gudkov (42) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 4 - Vladimir Myasishchev (80) - Soviet psychologist and psychotherapist.
• October 6 - Boris Agapov (64) - Russian Soviet writer and screenwriter.
• October 7 - Yitzhak Ben-Shoham (37) - Colonel of the Israel Defense Forces.
• October 7 - David Israeli - Deputy Commander of the 188th Tank Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces during the Doomsday War, Lieutenant Colonel of Tank Forces.
• October 8 - Gabriel Honore Marcel (83) - the first French existentialist philosopher .
• October 8 - Yury Pobedonostsev (66) - Soviet scientist, designer of rocket technology.
• October 9 - Sergey Kudryavtsev (53) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 10 - Ludwig von Mises (92) - economist, philosopher, historian, supporter of classical liberalism.
• October 10 - Ada Fishman-Maimon (80) - Israeli politician.
• October 12 - Aleksey Zhdanov (71) - submarine officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War.
• October 12 - Ivan Egorov (65) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 13 - Nikolay Baturin (63) - senior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 13 - Nikolay Malyshev (61) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 14 - Ganii Safiulin (68) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 15 - Jonas Buchas (72) - Lithuanian economist, doctor of economic sciences, rector of Vilnius State University.
• October 16 - Boris Sheiko (68) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 17 - Ingeborg Bachmann (47) - Austrian writer , playwright , poet .
• October 18 - Leo Strauss (74) - historian of political philosophy, cultural studies, the main ideologue of neoconservatism .
• October 18 - Damian (Kokoneshi) (80) - the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church.
• October 19 - Irinarkh (Vologzhanin) (87) - Bishop of the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Old Believers accepting the Belokrinitsky hierarchy), Bishop of Kiev-Vinnitsa and Odessa.
• October 20 - Andrei Abrikosov (66) - Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR .
• October 20 - Ilya Gabay (38) - a prominent member of the human rights movement of the 1960s - 1970s, teacher, poet, writer, screenwriter.
• October 20 - Andrei Grebnev (60) - Soviet military leader, Major General. Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 20 - Elena Dreyer - senior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, holder of three military orders.
• October 20 - Savely Feinberg (62) - physicist.
• October 22 - Pablo Casals (96) - Spanish cellist, conductor, composer and musical public figure.
• October 23 - Sergei Kuznetsov (56) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 25 - Galya Berdin (66) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 26 - Semyon Budyonny (90) - Soviet commander, member of the Civil War , commander of the First Cavalry Army , one of the first Marshals of the Soviet Union .
• October 27 - Vasily Sterligov (49) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 28 - Taha Hussein (83) - one of the most influential Egyptian intellectuals of the 20th century, a writer, literary critic and historian.
• October 29 - Petr Kirillov (71) - full gentleman of the Order of Glory.
• October 29 - Peter Motkov (54) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• October 30 - Ants Lauter (79) - Estonian Soviet actor, theater director, teacher.
• October 30 - Boris Shergin (80) - Soviet writer , folklorist , publicist and artist .
• October 31 - Peter Konstantinov (74) - Soviet actor.

• November 1 - Vladimir Sterligov (69) - Russian artist, painter, easel and book schedule.
• November 2 - Abilkhan Kasteyev (69) - Kazakh painter and watercolourist, folk artist of the Kazakh SSR, the founder of Kazakh fine arts.
• November 2 - Arif Saparov (61) - Soviet writer, journalist.
• November 3 - Janis Osis (78) - Latvian actor. People's Artist of the USSR.
• November 3 - Alexander Sergeev - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 4 - Vsevolod Kochetov (61) - Russian Soviet novelist; suicide.
• November 5 - Herzel Novogrudsky (69) - Russian Soviet journalist, writer.
• November 5 - Nikolai Smirnov (70) - Soviet military leader, member of the Military Council of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral.
• November 7 - Dmitry Mitrokhin (90) - Soviet artist.
• November 9 - Andrei Piontkovsky (75) - Soviet lawyer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• November 12 - Napoleon Andreasyan (76) - member of the CPSU , state and party leader.
• November 14 - Natalia Efron (77) - Soviet actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• November 14 - Heinrich Zelenko (68) - Soviet statesman.
• November 17 - Nikolai Ushakov (74) - Russian Soviet poet, writer and translator.
• November 18 - Alexey Kortunov (66) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 19 - Ivan Zhelnenkov (57) - full gentleman of the Order of Glory.
• November 21 - Ivan Gzirishvili (53) - Full Companion of the Order of Glory.
• November 22 - Vladimir Stozharov (47) - Russian Soviet painter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• November 23 - Boris Mashkovtsev (51) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 23 - Jenny Turel (73) - American singer (mezzo-soprano) and music teacher of Russian origin.
• November 24 - Nikolay Kamov (71) - Soviet aircraft designer, creator of the Ka helicopters, doctor of technical sciences.
• November 24 - Semyon Kobets (51) - Senior Lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 25 - Lawrence Harvey (45) - British actor of Lithuanian descent.
• November 26 - Vladimir Kanareev (58) - midshipman of the USSR Navy, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 26 - Zaki Shlush (80) - Israeli architect.
• November 27 - Mikhail Bespalov (61) - captain of the 1st rank of the USSR Navy, member of the Hasan fights and the Soviet-Japanese war, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 27 - Mikhail Ignatiev (53) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 27 - Boris Rastoropov (49) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 27 - Sergey Shcherbakov (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 28 - Indrikis Biernis (79) - member of the CPSU , educator, participant of the Civil War in Russia.
• November 28 - Nikolay Voronovsky (59) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Chuvash Regional Committee of the CPSU (1968-1973).
• November 29 - Tatul Altunyan (72) - Soviet choral conductor, musical figure of Armenian origin. People's Artist of the USSR (1965).
• November 29 - David Andguladze (78) - opera singer (dramatic tenor) and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR.
• November 29 - Vladimir Kurasov (76) - Soviet military leader, army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• November 30 - Alexander Kurynov (39) - Soviet weightlifter, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

• December 3 - Alexander Foinitsky (87) - Russian and Soviet artist and teacher, Honored Art Worker of the Moldavian SSR.
• December 4 - Boris Anisfeld (95) - Russian and American artist, set designer.
• December 4 - Vasily Zyl (71) - Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 7 - Alexander Gorbatov (82) - Soviet commander, army general , Hero of the Soviet Union , second commandant of post-war Berlin ( 1945 ).
• December 7 - Efim Udaltsov (51) - Soviet officer, military attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 8 - Vasily Pavlov (59) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 9 - Lutfali Abdullayev (59) - Soviet Azerbaijani actor, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
• December 9 - Leonid Pervomaysky (65) - Ukrainian Soviet writer.
• December 10 - Konstantin Bezpalchev (77) - Soviet Rear Admiral.
• December 11 - Alty Karliev (64) - Soviet Turkmen actor, director of theater and cinema, playwright. People's Artist of the USSR.
• December 11 - Alexey Nikitin (73) - Soviet commander, Colonel-General of Aviation.
• December 12 - Alexey Proshlyakov (72) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 12 - Ivan Sleziuk (77) - Blessed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Bishop, Confessor.
• December 14 - Alexander Biryukov (52) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 19 - Vasily Mirun (51) - Lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 19 - Povilas Plekhavicius (83) - Lithuanian statesman, general.
• December 20 - Timofey Gorbachev (72) - Soviet mining scientist, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labor
• December 20 - Bobby Darin (37) - American singer and songwriter, one of the most popular artists in the styles of rock'n'roll and country in the 50s-60s.
• December 20 - Dmitry Nikishov (75) - Soviet military leader, Major General.
• December 21 - Petr Grishchenko (52) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 22 - Peter Streletsky (55) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 25 - Ismet Inonu (89) - President of Turkey (1938-50), a prominent statesman and political figure.
• December 27 - Pavel Bermondt-Avalov (96) - Russian officer, major general, representative of the pro-German current in the white movement in the Baltic States.
• December 27 - Alexander Predvoditelev (82) - Russian physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), in 1937–1946 dean of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University .
• December 28 - Alexander Row (67) - Soviet film director , author of many fairy-tale films, People’s Artist of the RSFSR ( 1968 ).
• December 30 - Konstantin Vershinin (73) - Soviet commander.
• December 30 - Mikhail Somov (65) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• December 31 - Mikhail Gakhokidze (64) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.

• Lev Weissenberg (72-73) - Soviet writer, translator, screenwriter.

• List of deceased in 1972
• List of deceased in 1974