List of Famous people who died in 1971

Enrique Rambal was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1952 and 1971. Enrique had married actresses Mercedes Borque and Lucy Gallardo.

Elinor Kershaw, also known as Nell and Elinor K. Ince, was an American stage and motion-picture actress; wife of Hollywood Mogul Thomas H. Ince, and mother of actor Richard Ince and writer Thomas H. Ince Jr. Her older sister was the stage actress Willette Kershaw. She built the Château Élysée in Los Angeles as a luxury long-term residential apartment house for movie stars.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles George Wickham, KCMG, KBE, DSO was a British Army officer, commander of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1922–1945) and adviser to British police in various colonies of the Empire.

Joseph Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history.

Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman, best known as Libby Holman, was an American actress, singer, and civil rights activist who also achieved notoriety for her complex and unconventional personal life. In her lifetime she became known in the press as "the dark purple menace."

Hugo Lafayette Black was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from 1927 to 1937 and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections. Having gained a reputation in the Senate as a reformer, Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 16. He was the first of nine Roosevelt appointees to the Court, and he outlasted all except for William O. Douglas.