List of Famous people who died in 1971

Lionel Lindon, ASC was an American film cameraman and cinematographer who spent much of his career working for Paramount.

Claude Gauvreau was a Canadian playwright, poet, sound poet and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifesto.

Anton Franz Edthofer was an Austrian actor.

Sergo Zakariadze was a renowned Georgian actor.

Joseph Offenbach was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969.

Norman Earl Steenrod was an American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.

Charles DuBois Coryell was an American chemist who was one of the discoverers of the element promethium.

Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a well-known Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism, and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple, but effective, chair designs.