* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

* 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player

* 1971 – Sanjay Suri, Indian actor and model

* 1971 – Nick Hexum, American singer and musician ( 311 )

* 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1971 – Darren Emerson, English DJ ( Underworld )

* 1971 – An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad.

* 1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer

* 1971 – Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and coach

* 1971 – Aygül Özkan, German politician

* 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress

* 1971 – Scott Minto, English footballer

* 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper and actor ( Westside Connection )

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1971 – Mark Povinelli, American actor

* 1971 – Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist

* 1971 – Nikki Ziering, American model and actress

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992.

) Malcolm McDowell's portrayal of the narrator parodies Alistair Cooke, " a British person " himself, who was the host of Masterpiece Theatre between 1971 and 1992.

Crystal Tipps and Alistair was a five-minute, 50-episode animation as well ( with a 20-minute Christmas special ), first shown between 1971 and 1974.

in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at St. Anthony's College, Oxford.

The award was established in 1971 ; it was formerly known as the John H. Potts Memorial Award.

* 1971 – Alice Evans, English actress

* 1971 – Max Beesley, English actor and musician

Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.

* 1971 – Liam Howlett, English musician, DJ, and producer ( The Prodigy )

* 1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Alex Griffin, English bass player ( Ned's Atomic Dustbin )

* 1971 – Russell Payne, English author

* 1971 – Tommy Mooney, English footballer

* 1971 – Kavus Torabi, Iranian-born English guitarist

* 1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

* 1971 – Geoff Barrow, English musician ( Portishead )

in English from Wabash College in 1970, and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

* Dione Lucas ( 1909 – 1971 ), English chef and first female graduate of Le Cordon Bleu

* 1971 – Melinda Messenger, English television presenter

* 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Bus Station Loonies, Oi Polloi and Disorder )

* 1971 – John Partridge, English actor, singer, and dancer

* 1971 – Richard Burns, English rally driver ( d. 2005 )

* 1971 – Stan Collymore, English footballer

* 1971 – Phil Whyman, English paranormal researcher, television personality, writer and musician

* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971