List of Famous people who died at 71

Sergio Oliva was a Cuban bodybuilder known as "The Myth". He is a 3 time Mr Olympia winner.

Joel Antônio Martins (1931–2003) was an association football winger.

Delroy Scott was a Jamaican footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder. He later coached.

Princess Ferial Farouk ; 17 November 1938 – 29 November 2009) was the eldest child of Egypt's penultimate monarch, King Farouk.

Douglas Graham Shearer was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. He won seven Academy Awards for his work. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

Abuzar Abdulhakimovich Aydamirov, Russian: Абузар Абдулхакимович Айдамиров was a Chechen novelist and poet, author of a historical trilogy dedicated to Caucasian Wars and of the Anthem of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Gilles Delouche was a French scholar of classical literature of the Rattanakosin Kingdom. Delouche, who was born in Orléans, was Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) since 1987, having taught from 1971 to 1987 at the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University (Thailand), which awarded him an honorary degree.

Major-General Sir Robert Anthony Pigot, 7th Baronet CB OBE DL RM was a Royal Marines officer. Son of George Douglas Hugh Pigot and Hersey Elizabeth Maltby. He was educated at Stowe. He was commissioned into the RM in 1934 and served during the Second World War, and afterwards.