List of Famous people who died at 71

Theodore Edwin Gehring Jr. was an American film and television actor. He is known for playing the recurring role as "Charlie" on 16 episodes of the American sitcom television series Alice.

Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed was a Sri Lankan diplomat and prominent political figure. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1989; and from 1993 to 1994. In the intervening period he was Minister of Justice & Higher Education of Sri Lanka.

Robert George Stokes, was an American animator who worked for diverse studios between 1932 and 1941, including Harman-Ising Pictures, Iwerks Studio (1933-34), Walt Disney Productions (1937-39) and Leon Schlesinger Productions (1939-41).

Michael A. Wiener was an American business executive who was one of the two founders of the Infinity Broadcasting Corporation in 1972, ran the company as president and chairman, and became a philanthropist after selling the business and its 44 radio stations to Westinghouse Corporation in 1996 for $3.7 billion.

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.