List of Famous people who died in 1971

Major-General Sir David Dawnay was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was also a British polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Robert Still was a wide-ranging English composer of tonal music, who made strong use of dissonance. As a songwriter he set words by Byron, Keats and Shelley.

Xie Juezai was a Chinese politician and the President of the Supreme People's Court.

Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party. He was Minister of Italy several times, becoming one of the most important politician of his generation.

Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.

George Macaulay Booth was a British businessman, and a director of the Bank of England.

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).