List of Famous people who died in 1971

William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was a Liberian politician. He was the 19th President of Liberia and the longest-serving president in the country's history, serving from his election in 1944 until his death in 1971.

Hanns von Meyenburg was a Swiss Pathologist.

Samuel Reber III was a diplomat who spent 27 years in the Foreign Service of the United States, including several years with the Allied High Commission for Germany. Threats by Senator Joseph McCarthy to reveal a homosexual incident in his past forced him to resign quietly from the State Department in 1953. McCarthy later publicly alleged that Reber had been forced to retire because he posed a "security risk."

Bum Krüger was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1969.

Frank Burty Haviland was a French Cubist painter, a friend and early client of Picasso and Braque, and an early collector of African art.

Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than seventy films.

Louis Armand was a French engineer who managed several public companies, and had a significant role during World War II as an officer in the Resistance. He was the first chair of Euratom and was elected to the Académie française in 1963.

Lewis Barrett Welch Jr. was an American poet associated with the Beat generation literary movement.

Paruyr Sevak was an Armenian poet, translator and literary critic. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the 20th century.