List of Famous people who died at 70

Mir Anvar Pashayev, known by his literary pen-name Mir Jalal, was an Azerbaijani writer and literary critic. He was the grandfather of Azerbaijan's current First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva.

Franco Angrisano was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1965 to 1996.

Keith Edward Bullen FAA FRS was a New Zealand-born mathematician and geophysicist. He is noted for his seismological interpretation of the deep structure of the Earth's mantle and core. He was Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney in Australia from 1945 until 1971.

Marian Oleś was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia.

William Harding Jackson was a U.S. civilian administrator, New York lawyer, and investment banker who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Jackson also served briefly under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Acting United States National Security Advisor from 1956 to 1957.

Jean-Luc Pepin, was a Canadian academic, politician and Cabinet minister.

Ernest Pintoff was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer.