List of Famous people who died at 71

Vasily Dmitrievich Zvyagintsev was a Russian science fiction author.

Mark Arnold Wainberg, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV reverse transcriptase, the molecular basis for drug resistance, and gene therapy. He received a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1966, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972, and did his post-doctoral research at Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University.

Keiichi Ishizaka was a Japanese music industry executive who was the chairman of Recording Industry Association of Japan.

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi, , known as Abu Salma, was a famous Palestinian poet was born in Tulkarm, and it is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Issa Samb, also known as Joe Ouakam was a Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet.

Ana María Arroyo Mariscal better known as Ana Mariscal was a classic Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer. She also acted in Argentinean films. She was involved in well over 50 films between 1940 and 1968, frequently starring in films she also wrote and directed. She is iconic to 1940s and 50s Spanish cinema. Her brother Luis Arroyo (1915–1956) was also an actor and film director.

Raúl Baglini was an Argentine politician who served in both houses of the National Congress of Argentina, representing the Radical Civic Union.

Ayhan Şahenk was a Turkish businessman and founder of the Doğuş Group.

Edmond Michelet was a French politician. He is the father of the writer Claude Michelet.

Zoran Modli was a Serbian journalist, radio disc jockey, and aviator. He was one of the most popular Yugoslav radio personalities, running one of the most notable radio shows of the early 1980s in Yugoslavia, Ventilator 202.