* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.

* 1925 – Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish rifle shooter ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )

* 1789 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine military ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration.

* 1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician ( d. 1950 )

* 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1937 )

* 1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer, father of Frida Kahlo ( b. 1871 )

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 ), short-lived son of Edward VII

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( b. 1871 )

* 1826 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist ( d. 1871 )

Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.

******** HRH Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 )

* Bain, Alexander, English Composition and Rhetoric, 1871 ( facsimile ed., 1996, Scholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1497-2 ).

On 17 November 1919, Alexander married the non-royal Greek " aristocrat " Aspasia Manos ( 1896 – 1972 ) of the Manos family, the daughter of colonel Petros Manos ( 1871 – 1918 ) and his wife Maria Argyropoulous ( 1874 – 1930 ).

* December 6 – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer ( b. 1871 )

* Alexander Murray, 9th Lord Elibank ( 1804 – 1871 )

After extinction of the Barclay de Tolly princely line with his son Magnus on 29 October 1871 ( 17 October, Old Style ), Alexander II allowed the field marshal's sister's grandson through female lineage, Alexander von Weymarn, to assume the title of Prince Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn on 12 June 1872 ( 31 May, Old Style )

* Alexander von Zemlinsky ( 1871 – 1942 ), composer

* August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia ( b. 1871 )

Alexander Spendiarov ( 1871 – 1928 ), Armen Tigranian ( 1879 – 1950 ), and Haro Stepanian are best known for their Armenian operas.

Male lactation was of some interest to Alexander von Humboldt, who reports in Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent of a citizen of the village Arenas ( close to Cumana ) who allegedly nurtured his son for three months when his wife was ill, as well as Charles Darwin, who commented on it in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ):

* George Francis Alexander Seymour, 7th Marquess of Hertford ( 1871 – 1940 )

* David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford ( 10th Earl of Balcarres ) ( 1871 – 1940 )

* Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1871 – 1962 )

* Alexander Oliphant-Murray, 9th Lord Elibank ( 1804 – 1871 )

* Thomas Alexander Marshall ( 1794 – 1871 ), former U. S. Representative from Kentucky

* Sarema is the Circassian heroine and title character in the 1897 opera of that name by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky ( 1871 – 1942 ).

This makes the Cubs, along with the Braves who were also founded in 1871, one of the two oldest active teams in major North American sports.

* 1871 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer ( d. 1932 )

* 1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player ( d. 1943 )

* 1821 – Charles Scribner I, American publisher ( d. 1871 )

* 1808 – Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American bacteriologist.

* Jews and Baseball: Entering the American mainstream, 1871 – 1948, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2006, ISBN 0-7864-2828-7

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author ( b. 1871 )

* 1925 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer ( d. 1906 )

* 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat ; 3rd Governor of California ; and former United States Envoy to Chile ( d. 1871 )

* 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer ( d. 1943 )

* 1871 – Stephen Crane, American writer ( d. 1900 )

* 1794 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player ( d. 1949 )

Claude Bernard's ( 1813 – 1878 ) further discoveries ultimately led to his concept of milieu interieur ( internal environment ), which would later be taken up and championed as " homeostasis " by American physiologist Walter Cannon ( 1871 – 1945 ).

* 1871 – J. Reuben Clark, American attorney, civil servant, and religious leader ( d. 1961 )