List of Famous people who died at 71

Sumitro, or Soemitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order before suddenly falling from grace in January 1974 after the Malari incident.

Antonio Leal Labrín was a Chilean politician. A member of the Party for Democracy, he served in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile from 1998 to 2010 and was its President from 2006 to 2007.

Matthias N’Gartéri Mayadi was a Chadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of N'Djaména in Chad from 2003 until his death in 2013.

Gavin Muir (1900–1972) was an American film, television, and theatre actor.

Simon Scott was an American character actor from Monterey Park, California. He was best known for his role as Arnold Slocum on Trapper John M.D. and as General Bronson on McHale's Navy.

Wolfgang Krull was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject.