List of Famous people who died at 70
Peter Reid
Admiral Sir John Peter Lorne Reid GCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Controller of the Navy.
Georges Izard
Georges Izard was a French politician, lawyer, journalist and essayist.
Erika Wackernagel
Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive, and besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
Christopher Trumbo
Christopher Trumbo was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. Trumbo was considered an expert on the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist. His father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, was blacklisted by Hollywood for nearly a decade for refusing to testify to Congress, as one of a group known as The Hollywood Ten.
Harold Lee
Hermann of Leiningen
Dennis Stewart-Brown
Julian William Fiaschi Tennant
Robert L. Forward
Robert Lull Forward was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as an aerospace engineer. He also made important contributions to gravitational wave detection research.