List of Famous people who died in 1971

Hans Kollwitz was a German epidemiologist, eldest son of artist Käthe Kollwitz. He obtained his degree in medicine and psychotherapy in 1928. He was also a World War I veteran, in which he voluntarily served, after joining from the German Youth Movement where he was a Wandervogel.

Charles Leopold Mayer (1881-1971) was a French biochemist, humanist and materialist philosopher.

Paul Sawtell was a Polish-born film score composer in the United States.

Yitzhak-Meir Levin, was a Haredi politician in Poland and Israel. One of 37 people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence, he served in several Israeli cabinets, and was a longtime leader and Knesset minister for Agudat Yisrael and related parties.

Fernando Quiroga Palacios was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela from 1949 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Hank Mann was a comedian and silent screen star who was the last surviving member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Mann was the originator of the idea for the Keystone Cops.

Raymond Egerton Hubbard, 4th Baron Addington was a British Peer. The son of Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington, he succeeded the Barony on the death of his elder brother, who had died without a male heir.

Oreste Biancoli was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 92 films between 1930 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1938 and 1952. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.