* 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

Stefan Klos ( born 16 August 1971 in Dortmund ) is a retired German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

* Stefan Jędrychowski ( 22 December 1968-22 December 1971 )

* Stefan Schnoor, b. 1971, footballer

Kicking Mule Records was an independent American record label founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by guitarist Stefan Grossman and Eugene " ED " Denson, formerly co-owner of Takoma Records.

Igor Stefan Kokoškov ( Serbian Cyrillic: Игор Стефан Кокошков ) ( born 17 December 1971 in Banatski Brestovac village near Pančevo, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.

* 1971 – Heike Makatsch, German actress

* 1971 – Tim Gutberlet, German footballer

* 1971 – Elton, German comedian and television host

* 1971 – Paul van Dyk, German DJ

* 1971 – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German politician

* 1971 – Sascha Fischer, German rugby player

Goya-Der lange Weg der Erkenntnis ( 1971 ) is an East German film directed by Konrad Wolf.

* 1971 – Thomas Franck, German footballer

Willy Brandt ( 1913 – 1992 ), German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1971

* 1971 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor ( d. 1997 )

* 1971 – Mike Süsser, German chef

* 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor ( b. 1971 )

* 1971 – Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver

* 1900 – Helene Weigel, German actress ( d. 1971 )

The majority ( over 100 thousand ) gradually left and after the improvement of German-Polish relations by the German Ostpolitik of the 1970s 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany in between 1971 and 1988, today approximately between 5, 000 and 6, 000 Masurians still live in the area, about 50 percent of them members of the German minority in Poland, the remaining half is ethnic Polish.

* 1971 – Tanja Damaske, German javelin thrower

The German GP could be hosted at the ' Ring again, and was for another three years from 1971 to 1973.

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

* 1971 – Fredi Bobic, German former footballer and current sports director of VfB Stuttgart

* 1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Mike Sadlo, German footballer