Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1971

John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith,, was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by the BBC as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a royal charter. His concept of broadcasting as a way of educating the masses marked for a long time the BBC and similar organisations around the world. An engineer by trade, and standing at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall, he was a larger-than-life figure who was a pioneer in his field.

Giannino Castiglioni fue un escultor y pintor italiano.

Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz fue un abogado, político y diplomático colombiano. Presidente de Colombia entre 1962 y 1966, y segundo líder del sistema de gobierno del Frente Nacional.

James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, was a Scottish Unionist politician. He was joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957. In 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.

Ida Friederike Görres, born Elisabeth Friederike, Reichsgräfin Coudenhove-Kalergi, was an Austrian writer. From the Coudenhove-Kalergi family, she was the daughter, one of seven children, of Count Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi and his Japanese wife Mitsuko Aoyama.

Ana Audrey Emery fue una heredera y socialité americana y la esposa de Demetrio Románov, el último Gran Duque de Rusia.

René Simon fue un actor teatral y cinematográfico de nacionalidad francesa.

Raymond de Saussure was a Swiss psychoanalyst, the first president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.