Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1971

Yrjö Väisälä fue un astrónomo y físico finés.

Seán Francis Lemass fue uno de los políticos irlandeses más influyentes del siglo XX. Fue Taoiseach de la República de Irlanda desde 1959 hasta 1966.

Leonard George Hayton was an American musician, composer, conductor and arranger. Hayton's trademark was a captain's hat, which he always wore at a rakish angle.

August William Derleth escritor y antologista estadounidense perteneciente al Círculo de Lovecraft. Aunque conocido por haber sido el primer editor de los escritos de H.P. Lovecraft y por su propia contribución a los Mitos de Cthulhu, así como por haber sido el fundador de la editorial Arkham House, Derleth también fue un destacado escritor regionalista americano, así como un prolífico autor en diversos géneros, incluyendo ficción histórica, poesía, novela negra, ciencia ficción y biografía.

Chaim Sheba era un médico israelí.

Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. Some of his better known novels are Death Packs a Suitcase, Strangler of Blackmoor Castle, Murder is Not Enough, The Device, The Man Who Would Not Swim, Murder in Touraine, The White Carpet, The Phantom of Soho and The World is at Stake, among others. During the 1930s, he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing scripts with other writers.

Antonio Barolini was an Italian poet and novelist who was born in Vicenza on 29 May 1910, and died in Rome on 21 January 1971. His stories, translated into English by his wife, Helen Barolini, appeared in The New Yorker and then were collected and published as Our Last Family Countess, and other Stories. He was awarded the Bagutta Prize in Milan for his book of poetry, Elegie di Croton.