Famous People Who Died in 1971

• Arbus, Diane

  New York photographer of oddball humans

• Armstrong, Louis

  The charismatic jazz trumpeter who recorded "Hello Dolly"

• Bunche, Ralph

  The first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize

• Chanel, Coco

  The designer who created the "little black dress"

• Dihigo, Martín

  The Cuban baseball star known as "The Immortal"

• Duvalier, François "Papa Doc"

  The all-powerful President of Haiti, 1957-71

• Farnsworth, Philo T.

  Inventor of the all-electronic television

• Khrushchev, Nikita

  Leader of the USSR, 1956-64

• Lloyd, Harold

  The silent film comedian who dangled from a clock face in Safety Last

• Morrison, Jim

  Lead singer of the band The Doors

• Murphy, Audie

  The most-decorated American soldier of World War II

• Nash, Ogden

  Author of the funny poem "The Lama"

• Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Christian intellectual who wrote Moral Man and Immoral Society

• Sarnoff, David

  Radio and TV Pioneer and head of RCA

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