List of Famous people who are 70

Richard Nathan Haass is an American diplomat. He has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Martin Mosebach is a German writer. He has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays. His first major non-fiction work is the book The 21 - A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs detailing his visit to Egypt to examine the lives of the 21 Coptic martyrs beheaded by ISIS in 2015.

Don Bernard Zagier is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at ICTP.

Dirk Herman Willem Maas (Dick) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer.

Samuel Salmi is a Finnish prelate who was bishop of the Diocese of Oulu from 2001 to 2018.

Michele de Lucchi is an Italian architect and designer.

Paul Finley Zaloom is an American actor and puppeteer, best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show Beakman's World.