* 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 – 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 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

In 1971, the Senate was abolished, and the following year, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka, and became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first President of Sri Lanka.

In 1971 the Standardization policy of Sri Lankan universities was introduced as an affirmative action program for students from areas which had poor educational facilities due to 200 years purposeful discrimination by British colonialists.

He travelled to India and Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974.

The 1971 Universities Act introduced a policy of standardization to correct disproportionately high number of Sri Lankan Tamils students entering universities.

The university progressed and expanded through the 19th century to span the whole of South India, giving birth to universities like Mysore University ( 1916 ), Osmania University ( 1918 ), Andhra University ( 1926 ), Annamalai University ( 1929 ), Travancore University ( 1937 ) presently University of Kerala, Sri Venkateswara University ( 1954 ), Madurai Kamaraj University ( 1966 ), Bharathidasan University ( 1982 ), Bharathiar University ( 1982 ), Manonmaniam Sundaranar University ( 1990 ), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University ( 1971 ), Anna University ( 1978 ), Tamil University ( 1981 ), Mother Teresa Women's University ( 1984 ), The Tamil Nadu Dr. M. G. R.

Sri Prakasa () ( August 3, 1890 – June 23, 1971 ) was an Indian politician, freedom-fighter and administrator.

Sri Prakasa died in 1971 at the age of 80.

* 1971 JVP Insurrection, a Sri Lankan war initiated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (" People's Liberation Front ")

Central Sri Lanka is now dominated by the vast tea estates that helped make Sri Lanka the world's biggest exporter of tea for a while, and were still owned by British companies in 1971.

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Wijeweera led the party during the two major armed campaigns happened in Sri Lanka, which led by the JVP in 1971 and 1987-89.

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The 1971 uprising led by the Sri Lankan People's Liberation Front, or Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was an unsuccessful Marxist youth rebellion that claimed 15, 000 youth lives.

Thusitha Jayasundera ( born 1971 ) is a Sri Lankan actress based in the United Kingdom.

Then he joined the Government service as an Education Officer in the latter part of the 1960s and this was followed by his entry to Sri Lanka Law College in 1971. Subsequently he was sworn in as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

He was a radical political figure in Southern Sri Lanka since 1971.

Mehra was the second official of the Indian team that toured England in 1971 and the manager of the under-19 team's planned tour to Pakistan in 1980 / 81, which went to Sri Lanka instead.