List of Famous people who died at 70

Otto Pendl was an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, he served in the National Council from 1998 to 2017.

Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov was a Russian philologist and translator, renowned for his studies in classical philology and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957 and worked at the Gorky Institute of World Literature, the Russian State University for the Humanities, and the Russian Language Institute in Moscow. In 1992 Gasparov was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Science.

Klavdiya Sergeyevna Boyarskikh was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s.

Paul le Page Barnett, known by the pen name of John Grant, was a Scottish writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction.

François Furet was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago.

William Maxwell Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics. He published the satirical magazine Mad for over 40 years.