Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1971

Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, was a West Indian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. He played 18 Test matches before the Second World War and took the West Indies' first wicket in Test cricket. An advocate against racial discrimination, in later life he was influential in the passing of the 1965 Race Relations Act in Britain. He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969.

Ígor Fiódorovich Stravinski fue un compositor y director de orquesta ruso, fue uno de los músicos más importantes y trascendentes del siglo XX.

Amet-khan Sultan was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace with 30 personal and 19 shared kills who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Amet-khan was able to avoid deportation to Uzbekistan when the entire Crimean Tatar nation was repressed in 1944 due to his father's Lak ancestry, although he refused to change his passport nationality listing from Crimean Tatar to Lak throughout his entire life despite having personally witnessed the deportation of his nation while on vacation in Alupka. After the end of the war, he worked in Moscow as a test pilot and mastered piloting 96 different aircraft types before he was killed in a crash while testing a new engine on a modified Tupolev Tu-16 bomber. He remains memorialized throughout Ukraine and Russia, with streets, schools, and airports named after him as well as a museum dedicated to his memory.

Dolores Cacuango Quilo, conocida como Pepita Coneja, fue una activista ecuatoriana pionera en el campo de la lucha por los derechos de los indígenas y campesinos en Ecuador. Fundó en 1944 la Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios, FEI, con la ayuda del Partido Comunista de Ecuador, y en 1946 junto a Luisa Gómez de la Torre la primera escuela bilingüe (quichua-español). Es una de las más conocidas referentes de la izquierda ecuatoriana y una de las referentes del feminismo ecuatoriano a principios del siglo XX junto a Tránsito Amaguaña.

Chang Li-sheng was a Chinese politician and diplomat who served as the Secretary General of the Kuomintang from 1954 to 1959. L.S. Chang as he was commonly known, played a key role in Republic of China (ROC)’s political, economic, financial, and foreign affairs as well as in Kuomintang affairs from the 1920s until his death in Taiwan in 1971. Throughout his political life over four decades, Chang served in numerous important posts within both the KMT and the ROC’s local and central governments. He was a rare example of Chinese political virtues, noted for his integrity and honesty. He is remembered for numerous achievements and deeds, including his role in assisting Chen Cheng (1897-1965), former Taiwan provincial governor, Premier, and Vice President, to launch Taiwan’s local autonomy, economic and land reforms.

Edith Margaret Garrud, nacida Edith Margaret Williams (1872–1971) fue una activista política y artista marcial inglesa. Pasó a la historia por su papel como la líder del Cuerpo de Guardaespaldas de la Women's Social and Political Union a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX.

Paul Lukas fue un actor húngaro.

Emmett Evan Heflin Jr. fue un actor de cine y teatro estadounidense.

Bernardo Alberto Houssay fue un médico, catedrático y farmacéutico argentino. Por sus descubrimientos sobre el papel que desempeñan las hormonas pituitarias en la regulación de la cantidad de azúcar en la sangre (glucosa), fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel en Medicina en 1947, siendo el primer latinoamericano laureado en Ciencias. Gracias a su trabajo, la fisiología fue la disciplina médica que mayor vigor y desarrollo tuvo en Argentina.

Marcel Nadjari was a Jewish-Greek survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nadjari was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau from May 1944 to November 1944. He is one of three members of the Sonderkommando that wrote his memoirs after the war, along with Filip Müller and Leon Cohen. He took part in the preparation of the Sonderkommando uprising. He authored one of the 19 manuscripts of Sonderkommando members found near the ruins of the Birkenau crematoria.