List of Famous people who died in 1971

James Gladstone was a Canadian politician who became the first status Indian to be appointed to the Senate of Canada.

Mikhail Ilyich Romm was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1950.

Mikami Taku was a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, who participated in the May 15 Incident in which Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated.

Janka Maŭr, was a famous Belarusian writer. Janka Maŭr was actually his pseudonym, while his real name was Ivan Michaiłavič Fiodaraŭ. His son, Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, was a famous Belarusian physicist.

Joseph Michael Valachi was an American gangster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to, in 1963, acknowledge its existence publicly. He is credited with the popularization of the term cosa nostra.

Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen was a prominent businessman and politician in the early-20th-century Republic of China. His father was Charlie Soong and his siblings were the Soong sisters. His Christian name was Paul, but he is generally known in English as T. V. Soong. As brother to the three Soong sisters, Soong's brothers-in-law were Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and financier H. H. Kung.

Johanna (Hanna) Neumann was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory.