List of Famous people who died at 70

Mary Cantwell (1930–2000) was an American-born journalist and novelist. Cantwell served as a member of the New York Times editorial board for sixteen years. She wrote unsigned editorials, novels, and commentary for that newspaper. Cantwell also wrote for Mademoiselle and Vogue during her career. She also composed a trilogy of memoirs later in her life.

Marcelo Figueiredo Portugal Gouvêa was the chairman of São Paulo Futebol Clube in Brazil from 2002 to 2006.

Yoshiko Mibuchi was one of the first three women in Japan to become lawyers.

Legson Didimu Kayira was a Malawian novelist. An ethnic Tumbuka, he received an education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rural life, while his later writings satirised the Hastings Banda regime.

Frank Lisle (1916–1986) was a British painter and art teacher, who numbered a young David Hockney among his pupils when he was Head of Art at Bradford College of Art.

Alejandro Menchaca Lira was a Guadeloupean clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Temuco. He was born in Concepción, Chile. He became ordained in 1927. He was appointed bishop in 1941. He died on 21 July 1974, at the age of 70.

Miguel Itzigsohn (1908–1978) was an Argentine astronomer and observer of comets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 asteroids between 1948 and 1954. The outer main-belt asteroid 1596 Itzigsohn, which he discovered himself, was named in his memory on 1 August 1980.

Liang Sicheng was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture. His father, Liang Qichao, was one of the most prominent Chinese scholars of the early 20th century. His wife was the architect and poet Lin Huiyin. His younger brother, Liang Siyong, was one of China's first archaeologists.