1971 Deaths
- Arbus, Diane (26 July)
- Armstrong, Louis (6 July)
- Chanel, Coco (10 January)
- Duvalier, François "Papa Doc" (22 April)
- Farnsworth, Philo T. (11 March)
- Khrushchev, Nikita (11 September)
- Lloyd, Harold (8 March)
- Morrison, Jim (3 July)
- Murphy, Audie (28 May)
- Nash, Ogden (19 May)
- Niebuhr, Reinhold (1 June)
- Sarnoff, David (12 December)
