List of Famous people who died at 71

Viktor Mykolayovych Tikhonov, also spelled Viktor Tykhonov, was a Ukrainian politician.

George Fitzroy Seymour was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1966 and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.

James Goldman was an American screenwriter and playwright, and the brother of screenwriter and novelist William Goldman.

Kaysone Phomvihane was the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992. After the Communists seized power in the wake of the Laotian Civil War, he was the de facto leader of Laos from 1975 until his death. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic from 1975 to 1991 and then as the second President from 1991 to 1992.

Leopoldo Nachbin was a Jewish-Brazilian mathematician who dealt with topology, and harmonic analysis.

Carl Henry Eckart was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics, and the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra.

Nobuo Kaneko was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.

Josef Paul Kleihues was a German architect, most notable for his decades long contributions to the "critical reconstruction" of Berlin. His design approach has been described as "poetic rationalist".