* 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 – 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 )

The Christadelphian religious group traces its origins to Dr John Thomas ( 1805 – 1871 ), who migrated to North America from England in 1832.

* Stephen Hill, The Life of Brother John Thomas – 1805 to 1871 ( 2006 ).

* Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ), only son of the 8th Duke

John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

Illustration by John Tenniel, 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 )

In 1871, Arthur Severn married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin.

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

* 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.

** John French Sloan, American artist ( b. 1871 )

* September 3 – John Lester, American cricketer ( b. 1871 )

** John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician ( d. 1871 )

* March 7 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1871 )

* March 24-John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet ( born 1871 )

* 24 March-John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer ( born 1871 ).

* John Millington Synge ( 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909 ) was born in Newtown Villas, off Braemor Road, and lived here until his family moved to Dún Laoghaire in 1888.

Synge ( 1871 – 1909 ), who spent some time in the Irish-speaking Aran Islands, and in the early poetry of William Butler Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 ), where Irish mythology is used in a personal and idiosyncratic way.

Synge ( 1871 – 1909 )