List of Famous people who died in 1971

Henri ("Harry") Léonard Barthélémi Dénis was a football defender from the Netherlands, who represented his home country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1920.

Percy Alfred Helton was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was one of the most familiar faces and voices in Hollywood of the 1950s.

Colonel Francis William Bullock-Marsham, sometimes known as Francis Marsham, was a senior officer in the British Army and an English amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club and one for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), both in 1905. Part of the Marsham family that were involved with Kent County Cricket Club. He was born in Bicester and died in Maidstone.

Kenneth Campbell was a Scottish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Liverpool, Partick Thistle, New Brighton, Stoke City and Leicester City. Campbell also played in eight full international matches for Scotland between 1920 and 1922.

Edward Ward was a film composer and music director who was nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Binodanand Jha, also known as Pandit Binodanand Jha, was an Indian politician originally from the district of Deoghar, Bihar now in Jharkhand. He was educated at the Central Calcutta College, under the University of Calcutta. He was the Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963. He was elected to the 5th Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from the Darbhanga constituency of Bihar in 1971. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1948 from Bihar.

Frédéric Mariotti was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned more than four decades through the early silent film era into the early 1950s.