List of Famous people who died at 71

Albino Binda was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 8 of the 1928 Giro d'Italia.

Robert Garioch Sutherland was a Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language, he was a key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century. However, his biggest influences were the 18th-century poet Robert Fergusson and the Italian dialect sonneteer Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

Felix Ermacora was a leading human rights expert of Austria and a member of the Austrian People's Party.

Jake Eberts, OC was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire, Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000).

Joseph Orlando was an Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of Mad and the vice president of DC Comics, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department.

Araceli Herrero Figueroa was a Spanish writer.

Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet who wrote most of his works in Catalan.