List of Famous people who died at 71

Aluf Meir Dagan was an Israel Defense Forces Major General and Director of the Mossad.

Christian Didier came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation. Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference. This meant that the police had no difficulty in locating him.

Nikolay Ilyich Kamov was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design of helicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.

Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was an Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright.

Juan Carlos Dante Gullo was an Argentine sociologist and politician, who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (2007–2011) and the Buenos Aires City Legislature (2011–2015).

Fritz Schösser was a German politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the chairman of the Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Bavaria from 1990 and 2010. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of the Bavarian Senate, after which he became a member of the Landtag of Bavaria. In 1998, Schösser was elected to the national Bundestag, serving until 2005.

Markus Werner was a Swiss writer, known as the author of the novels Zündels Abgang, Am Hang, and Die kalte Schulter.

Charles Southwood was an American actor in Europe and the founder of Death Cigarettes.

Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his life in America, Blücher traveled in popular academic circles and appears prominently in the lives of various New York intellectuals.

Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She and Irving C. Tang were the first two people to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States.