List of Famous people who died at 70

Antoine Choueiri was a Lebanese media executive. He was the founder of Choueiri Group, the Middle East's largest media broker. He was born in Beirut in 1939 to a Maronite Christian family from Bsharri and married his wife Rose Salameh in 1961 who gave birth to two children. He died on March 9, 2010 of health complications, he is buried in his ancestral home of Bsharri in his honor one of Bsharri's main streets will be named "Antoine Choueiri" in homage to him and his achievements.

Cassandra Rios, alias Odete Rios was a Brazilian fiction, mystery and specially lesbian erotica books writer. She wrote more than 40 novels, and was the first Brazilian female writer who sold more than one million books. She was censored during the military dictatorship.

Takao Sakurai was a Japanese boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics.