List of Famous people who died at 73

Layla ʽUssayran was a Lebanese novelist.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi, commonly known as Imam Shirazi, was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political theorist.

Leung Sing Poh MBE was an actor, host and former Cantonese opera performer from Hong Kong. Leung is a pioneer actor of TVB. Leung is a former chairman of Chinese Artist Association of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1970. Leung was nicknamed "Por Suk" or "Uncle Por". Leung is credited with over 440 films. Leung has a star at Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.

Mahyuddin Natimbul Same'a was an Indonesian politician and academic who served as the vice governor of South Sumatra from 2003 to 2008 and as governor of South Sumatra in 2008. Following his five-month tenure as governor, Mahyuddin later served as a member of the People's Representative Council from 2009 to 2014.

Ted Wong was a martial arts practitioner best known for studying under Bruce Lee.

Lu Yu-wen was a Taiwanese politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 1989 to 1993. Lu was later named Vice President of the Judicial Yuan, serving from 1993 to 1998. He died in 1999 due to lung cancer. He is survived by a son and three daughters, all born to his first wife, who had died in 1994.

Shaykh Mustafa Ismail was an Egyptian Quran reciter. The quadrumvirate of El Minshawy, Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous Qurra' of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the Islamic world.

Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Tokyo, noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle. He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram often used in the analysis of industrial processes.

Kerim Afşar was a Turkish actor who played various roles in theater, movies and TV series. During his career, the actor also directed several movies and also played as voice actor in some of his movies.