List of Famous people who died at 70

Clément-Joseph Hannouche was an Egyptian Syriac Catholic hiearch, Bishop of Cairo since 1995.

Basil Wrangell was an Italian film and television editor and director who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Erich Ebermayer was a German writer who wrote a number of plays, novels and articles. He was also a noted screenwriter involved with around thirty films including the 1937 historical production Madame Bovary.

Robert Hutchinson Finch was a Republican politician from La Canada Flintridge, California. In 1967, he served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of California. Following Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, he was appointed Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1969. He was the Counselor to the President from 1970 until 1972. During the 1976 California United States Senate election, he lost in the Republican primary to S.I. Hayakawa.