List of Famous people who died at 70

Concetto Antonio Sciacca was an Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Australian House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996 and again from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland.

Larry Harvey was an American artist, philanthropist and activist. He was the main co-founder of the Burning Man event, along with his friend Jerry James.

P. F. "Flip" Sloan was an American pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was very successful during the mid-1960s, writing, performing, and producing Billboard Top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, The Searchers, Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots, The Turtles and The Mamas and the Papas. Sloan's signature song is "Eve of Destruction" – a 1965 US number one for Barry McGuire. Many of his songs were written in collaboration with Steve Barri. Their partnership yielded two US Top Ten hits — Herman's Hermits' "A Must to Avoid" (1965/66) and Johnny Rivers's "Secret Agent Man" (1966) — and the Turtles' "You Baby".

Muriel Casals i Couturier was a Catalanist economist with both Spanish and French nationality.

Maki Kaji was the president of Nikoli Co., Ltd., a Japanese puzzle manufacturer. He is widely known as "the father of Sudoku" for his role in popularizing the number game.

Edward Joseph Farmer was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eight different teams, predominantly in the American League, between 1971 and 1983. The team he played the most games for was the Chicago White Sox, including one All-Star Game appearance. After his retirement as a player, he spent nearly 30 years as a White Sox radio broadcaster.

Amanullah Khan, known, professionally as Amanullah, was a Pakistani Punjabi theatre performer, comedian and TV artist regarded as one of the best comedians in the Indian subcontinent. He is cited as one of the world's best observational comedians as he learned through his surroundings and everyday happenings. He influenced many artists as well as people. Khan has a world record of 860-day night theater plays.

Juan Gabriel Cotino Ferrer was a Spanish entrepreneur and politician.

Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov was an author, producer and anchorman of the television show What? Where? When?, and a member of the Russian Academy of Television. He served from 1989 as president of the International Association of Clubs.

Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova was a great Soviet and Russian ballerina of the second part of the 20^th century who had international recognition and fame. She was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre for 30 years, a ballet pedagogue, People’s Artist of the USSR and Russian Federation, winner of international ballet competitions, Laureate of many prestigious International and Russian awards, a professor in GITIS, Honorary professor at the Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, and an Executive Committee member of the Russian Center of Counseil International De La Danse, UNESCO