List of Famous people who died at 71

Carlos Vicente Squeo was an Argentine football defender. He played for several clubs in Argentina and Mexico and represented the Argentina national football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich was a journalist and officially mandated feminist. Between 1968 and 1981 she was editor in chief of the mass circulation women's magazine, "Für Dich". She was also a member of the national parliament ("Volkskammer") between 1963 and 1981.

Wolfgang Harich was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.

Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, best known as Antonio Guzmán, was a Dominican businessman and a politician. He was President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982.

Heinz Schilcher was an Austrian football player and manager, who worked as a scout for AFC Ajax.

Sasazawa Saho was a Japanese author, known as the creator of the Kogarashi Monjirō novels, which became a hit televised drama series.

Michel Besnier (1928–2000) was a French heir and businessman. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Besnier Group, later known as Lactalis.

Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics, known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms.

Robert Charles Morlino was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, from 2003 until his death in 2018. He was the Bishop of Helena, Montana, from 1999 to 2003. Morlino was widely perceived as a conservative bishop.

Wangarĩ Muta Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift she studied in the United States, earning a Bachelor's Degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.