1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate died at the age of 69. An excerpt from the article:
"Who Was Pablo Neruda?
Poet Pablo Neruda stirred controversy with his affiliation with the Communist Party and his outspoken support of Joseph Stalin, Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. His poetic mastery was never in doubt, and for it he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda died on September 23, 1973, with subsequent investigations exploring whether he might have been poisoned."