List of Famous people who died at 71

Samuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.

Karl Blessing was a German banker. He was President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1958 to 1969.

John Curtis Thomas was an American track and field athlete who set several world records in the high jump using the straddle technique. As a youth, he earned the Eagle Scout award. At the age of 17, while a freshman at Boston University, Thomas became the first man to clear 7 feet indoors. He subsequently pushed the world indoor record to 7'1½", and broke the world outdoor record three times, with a career best jump of 7'3¾" in 1960 while just 20 years old.

Bishop Andrew J. Roborecki was a Ukrainian-born Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the Titular Bishop of Tanais and Auxiliary Bishop of Apostolic Exarchate of Central Canada from 14 February 1948 until 10 March 1951 and as the first Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon from 10 March 1951 until his death on 24 October 1982.

Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall, was a British peer and journalist. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1904. His other titles included Earl of Donegall, Earl of Belfast, Viscount Chichester, and Baron Fisherwick, the last of which gave him a seat in the House of Lords. He was also the Hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh.

Francis de Wolff was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains in both film and television.

Theodor Koch was a German engineer and weapons manufacturer, born in Zuffenhausen, Germany. As a young man, Koch apprenticed as a precision mechanic. After completing his apprenticeship he attended an engineering school in Esslingen. In 1924 he started work for Mauser in Oberndorf as an engineer and stayed with them until 1931. After the fall of Germany to the Allied Forces at the end of World War II the Mauser factory was dismantled. Koch, Edmund Heckler and Alex Seidel saved what they could and used it to found Heckler & Koch.

Mario Castellani was an Italian comic actor, best known as the sidekick of famous comic actor Antonio De Curtis (Totò). He appeared with the latter in all his major movies, as well as many of Totò's theatre productions.