List of Famous people who died at 71

Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Heather May North was an American actress, best known for voicing Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise.

Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trokhymivna Prokhorenko was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier.

Simone Melchior Cousteau was a French explorer. She was the first woman scuba diver and aquanaut, and wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Héctor José Cámpora was an Argentine politician. A major figure of left-wing Peronism, Cámpora briefly was Argentine president from 25 May to 13 July 1973 and subsequently arranged for Perón to run for president in an election that he subsequently won. The modern left-wing Peronist political youth organization La Cámpora is named after him. He was a dentist by trade.

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, also spelled Baurjan Momish-Uli was a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author, posthumously awarded with the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and People's Hero of Kazakhstan.

Fayez Ghosn was a Lebanese politician who served as a minister of defense, and a member of the Marada Movement.

Karl-Heinz "Gala" Metzner was a German footballer. He was born in Kassel.

Daniel Abraham Rabinovich Aratuz was an Argentine musician, writer, humorist and lawyer. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he cofounded the group Les Luthiers in 1967.

Juan Luis Panero was a Spanish poet, born in Madrid.