Famous People Who Died In 1971
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1971. This list includes people like Jim Morrison, Nikita Khrushchev, Audie Murphy, Coco Chanel, Louis Armstrong and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, military leaders and physicists who died in 1971. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Russia and many more countries.
Audie Murphy20 June 1925, American
Jim Morrison08 December 1943, American
Singer, Lyricist, Poet, Musician, Filmmaker
Nikita Khrushchev15 April 1894, Russian, Russian
Prime Minister of Soviet Union
Louis Armstrong04 August 1901, American
Musician
Coco Chanel19 August 1883, French
Fashion Designer
Roy O. Disney24 June 1893, American
Co-Founder of Walt Disney Company
Chesty Puller26 June 1898, American
United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
Edie Sedgwick20 April 1943, American
Actress, Model
Vikram Sarabhai12 August 1919, Indian
Scientist
Diane Arbus14 March 1923, American
Photographer
Philo Farnsworth19 August 1906, American
Inventor
Reinhold Niebuhr21 June 1892, American
Theologian
Michael Rennie25 August 1909, British
Actor
Ogden Nash19 August 1902, American
Poet
Ralph Bunche07 August 1903, American
American Political Scientist and Diplomat
John W. Campbell08 June 1910, American
Science Fiction Writer
Leo Burnett21 October 1891, American
Businessman, Advertising Executive
William Tubman29 November 1895, Liberian
Politician
Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Paul Karrer21 April 1889, Swiss
Chemist
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney30 September 1883, American
Civil Engineer, Architect, Women’s Rights
George Jackson23 September 1941, American
African-American Left-Wing Activist & Marxist
Sir William Lawrence Bragg31 March 1890, British
Nobel Laureate in Physics
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Karl Lawrence King21 February 1891, American
Musician (Composer)
Igor Stravinsky17 June 1882, Russian
Composer
Duane Allman20 November 1946, American
Guitarist, Singer, Musician, Songwriter
Max Steiner10 May 1888, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Pier Angeli19 June 1932, Italian
Actor
François Duvalier14 April 1907, Haitian
Politician, Physician
Harold Lloyd20 April 1893, American
Actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter,
Van Heflin13 December 1908, American
Actor
Lin Biao05 December 1907, Chinese
Politician, Military personnel
Hugo Black27 February 1886, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Franz Stangl26 March 1908, Austrian
Police officer, Officer
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Joseph Valachi22 September 1903, American
Drug trafficker
Talitha Getty18 October 1940
Actor, Model
Dean Acheson11 April 1893, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Mathilde Kschessinska18 August 1872, Russian
ballet dancer
Margaret Bourke-White14 June 1904, American
Photographer, War photographer, Photojournalist,
Ralph Bunche1904 AD, American
James Cash Penney16 September 1875, American
philanthropist
Samuel Bronfman1889 AD, Canadian
Gotthard Heinrici25 December 1886, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Mátyás Rákosi09 March 1892, Hungarian
Politician
Joe Adonis22 November 1902, Italian
Hermann Hoth12 April 1885, German
Military personnel, Memoirist
Paul Lukas26 May 1891, Hungarian, American
actor, screenwriter, film actor
P. C. Sorcar23 February 1913, Indian
Stage magician
Arne Jacobsen11 February 1902, Danish
Danish architect
Arun Khetarpal14 October 1950, Indian
Lothar Rendulic23 October 1887, German
military personnel
Wilhelm List14 May 1880, German
Officer
Stevie Smith20 September 1902, British
Poet, Illustrator, Novelist, Performer, Writer
Jo Siffert07 July 1936, Swiss
Racing driver, Motorcycle racer, Racecar driver
Raoul Hausmann12 January 1886, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Frank Rosenblatt11 July 1928, American
Psychologist, Computer scientist
Heinz Lammerding27 August 1905, German
Engineer
John Marshall Harlan II20 May 1899, American
Judge, Lawyer
Fernandel08 May 1903, French
Actor
Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon17 July 1943, Indian
Officer
Cyril Burt03 March 1883, British
Psychologist, University teacher, Geneticist
John Desmond Bernal10 May 1901, British
Physicist, Philosopher, Inventor, University
Sherman Fairchild07 April 1896, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Financier,
William Lawrence Bragg31 March 1890, Australian, British
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
Georg Lukács13 April 1885, Hungarian
Philosopher
Bernardo Houssay10 April 1887, Argentinian
Physician, Scientist, Pharmacist
Roy Oliver Disney24 June 1893, American
Wendell Meredith Stanley16 August 1904, American
Biochemist
Pedro Rodríguez18 January 1940, Mexican
Formula One driver, motorcycle racer, racecar
Theodor Svedberg30 August 1884, Swedish
Chemist
Arne Tiselius10 August 1902, Swedish
Biochemist
Mikhail Yangel07 November 1911, Russian
Designer
Bobby Jones17 March 1902, American
Golfer
Richard L. Evans23 March 1906, American
Writer, Radio producer, Radio personality
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr23 September 1880, British
Teacher
George Seferis13 March 1900, Greek
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E. Simms Campbell02 January 1906, American
cartoonist
Nathan Leopold1904 AD
Author, Educator, Murderer
Kyūya Fukada11 March 1903, Japanese
Writer, Novelist, Mountaineer
Matiur Rahman29 October 1941, Bangladeshi
Military pilot
John Jacob Astor VRoyalty, Publisher
Kenny Washington31 August 1918, American
Football player
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert24 September 1890, British
Jacobo Árbenz14 September 1913, Guatemalan
Politician, Military personnel
Whitney Young Jr.1921 AD
Civil Rights Activist