* 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 ).

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

* 1871 Stockholms Superfosfat Fabrik, superphosphate factory is founded by Oscar F Carlson-with help from Lars Johan Hierta-in Gäddviken, Nacka outside Stockholm.

Johan Henrik Nebelong ( 1817 — 1871 ) was a Danish architect, and brother of Niels Sigfried Nebelong, worked in Norway from 1840 to 1853.

They were the parents of lawyer Herman Anton Johan Krag ( 1871 – 1931 ), and were the grandparents of Norwegian architect Herman Krag ( 1920-1982 ).

Johan Oscar Smith ( 1871 – 1943 ), the church's founder, was originally a member of the Methodist church.

* 1871 – Johan Svendsen's Symphony in D Major is played for the first time in Bergen.

* March 23 – Oscar Asche, Australian actor ( b. 1871 )

* Oscar Wisting ( 1871 – 1936 ), polar explorer

In 1871 he became acting lieutenant governor upon the death of Oscar Dunn, the first elected African-American lieutenant governor of a U. S. state.

Oscar James Dunn ( 1826 – November 22, 1871 ) was one of three African Americans who served as a Republican Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction.

Oscar Stanton De Priest ( March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951 ) was an American lawmaker and civil rights advocate who served as a U. S. Representative from Illinois from 1929 to 1935.

Oscar Adolf Wisting ( 6 June 1871 – 5 December 1936 ) was a Norwegian polar explorer.

), Oscar and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada ( 1871 – 1939 ), who was briefly President of Cuba after Gerardo Machado was deposed in 1933.

* 23 March – Oscar Asche ( born 1871 ), actor, writer and producer

File: Pissarro — Old Chelsea Bridge. jpg | Old Chelsea Bridge, London 1871, Smith College Museum of Arts

In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.

* 1871 Clint Smith, age 11, and brother Jeff Smith, age 9, kidnapped by Indians near Rocksprings.

The first homestead in Smith County was in 1871 and there were 3, 800 inhabitants by 1875.

* William Cunningham Smith ( 1871 – 1943 ), American academic of English literature, university administrator, and writer

* Mysterious Billy Smith ( 1871 – 1937 ), Canadian boxer

* William Smith ( Somerset cricketer ) ( 1871 – 1946 )

The area of Smith County where Lindale sits was inhabited long before the town was founded in 1871.

* George Otis Smith ( 1871 – 1944 ), director of United States Geological Survey, 1st chairman of Federal Power Commission

* George Smith ( bishop ) ( 1815 – 1871 ), 2nd principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849 – 1864

In 1871 Smith was appointed Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the nomination of John Hutton Balfour.

* Lawrence Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1822-Brighton, Victoria, 2 September 1871 ), a squatter, married at Brighton, Victoria, in 1859 to Annie Maria Smith, and had one son:

Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote " Above all nations is humanity ," an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to Cornell in May 1871.

The Botanic Gardens at Smith CollegeThe college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and six faculty.

* James Smith ( VC ) ( 1871 – 1946 ), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

* Sir Grafton Elliot Smith ( 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937 ), anatomist and palaeoanthropologist.

Warington Baden-Powell is also the author of Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes London, Smith, Elder, 1871.

Frazer's interest in social anthropology was aroused by reading E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture ( 1871 ) and encouraged by his friend, the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, who was linking the Old Testament with early Hebrew folklore.

George Smith died in 1871 and his son John Gordon Smith inherited the distillery.

* Samuel Walter Johnson Smith ( born 1871 ), English physicist

* Albert Edward Smith ( 1871 – 1947 ), Canadian religious leader and politician