* 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

* 1971 – Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player

She largely retired from acting after The Doris Day Show, but did complete two television specials, The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special ( 1971 ) and Doris Day to Day ( 1975 ).

In 1971, she co-founded Actors and Others for Animals and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur, alongside Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson, and Jayne Meadows.

* 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer

* 1971 – Irwin Thomas, Australian singer ( Southern Sons, Electric Mary and She Said Yes )

* Mary ( Mary Travers album ), 1971

Gordon died of a heart attack in November 1971 aged 64 ; Mary died the following month aged 61.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

* Mary Lundby, Iowa State Senate, 1971

From 1971 to 1986, she had a long-term relationship with actor Timothy Dalton, with whom she had starred in the film Mary, Queen of Scots.

One of the most devastating attacks was against the US Firebase, FSB Mary Ann in 1971.

( 1971 )-Bolt's most successful show after A Man for All Seasons, a historical account of the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I of England, comparing and contrasting the personalities and reigns of the two female rulers.

* Mary J. Blige ( born 1971 ), recording artist and Grammy winner

* Mary J. Blige ( born 1971 ), R & B singer.

* 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ), Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1971 ) and Young Winston ( 1972 ).

* Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1971 )

They were nominated and won Best R & B Vocal Performance by a Group in 1971 for " Proud Mary " at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards.

* 1971: Promenade Theatre ( Broadway ), New York ; with Robert Ryan ( James ), Geraldine Fitzgerald ( Mary ), Stacy Keach ( Jamie ), James Naughton ( Edmund ), and Paddy Croft ( Cathleen ), directed by Arvin Brown.

* 1971: National Theatre, London ; with Laurence Olivier ( James ), Constance Cummings ( Mary ), Denis Quilley ( Jamie ), Ronald Pickup ( Edmund ), and Jo Maxwell-Muller ( Cathleen ), directed by Michael Blakemore.

The Ridolfi Plot was covered in Mary Queen of Scots ( 1971 ), starring Vanessa Redgrave as Mary and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth.