List of Famous people who died in 1971

Russell Joseph McVinney was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Providence from 1948 until his death in 1971.

Victor Jean Perrin was a 20th-century Bishop of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer.

John Keiller Greig was a British figure skater. He was a three-time British national champion and competed at the 1908 Olympics, placing fourth.

Musei Tokugawa was a Japanese benshi, actor, raconteur, essayist, and radio and television personality. Musei first came to prominence as a benshi, a narrator of films during the silent era in Japan. He was celebrated for his restrained but erudite narration that was popular among intellectual film fans. He concentrated on foreign films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at high-class theaters like the Aoikan and the Musashinokan, but also performed Japanese works such as Teinosuke Kinugasa's experimental masterpiece A Page of Madness (1926). As the silent era ended, Musei switched to storytelling on stage and on radio, and also began acting and doing narrations in films. He was also famous for his essays, humorous novels, and autobiographical writings, publishing nearly fifty books in his life. With the advent of television in Japan, Musei also became a prominent presence in that medium.

James A. Westerfield was an American character actor of stage, film, and television.

Nayoroiwa Shizuo was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Nayoro, Hokkaidō, Japan.

Sayakbay Karalaev was a renowned manaschi - a reciter of the epic Kyrgyz poem Manas