List of Famous people who died in 1971

Marcel Gromaire was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, but Gromaire can be said to have created an independent oeuvre distinct from groups and movements.

Tao Hsuan was a Chinese educator and politician. She was one of the first group of three women appointed to the Legislative Yuan in 1928.

Sir Thomas Innes of Learney (1893–1971) was Lord Lyon from 1945 to 1969, after having been Carrick Pursuivant and Albany Herald in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a very active Lord Lyon, strongly promoting his views of what his office was through his writings and pronouncements in his Court. In 1950, he convinced the Scots Law Times to start publishing the decisions made in Lyon Court. By ruling on uncontested petitions, he was able to expound many of his theories in court but not under review of his superior court, and get them published in the judicial record. His treatise, Scots Heraldry, was first published in 1934 when he was Carrick Pursuivant; then a second, enlarged edition came out in 1956, and it has practically eclipsed earlier works on the subject. Following his retirement as Lord Lyon in 1969, he was appointed Marchmont Herald.

Lt. Col. Sir Arthur Pelham Heneage was a British Conservative Party politician.

Shahidullah Kaiser was a Bangladeshi novelist and writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1969, Ekushey Padak in 1983 and Independence Day Award in 1998.

Charles Murray Floyd, OBE, FLS, FRICS was an English businessman, surveyor, land agent and local politician.

Sir William Lorenzo Parker, 3rd Baronet was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Chen Jieru was the second wife of Chiang Kai-shek. She was nicknamed Jennie.

Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen was a British diplomat, civil servant and author. He is best remembered as the diplomat whose secrets were stolen by his Kosovar Albanian valet and passed on to Nazi Germany.