* 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player

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

* 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

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

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

* 1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress

* 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 – Nikki Ziering, American model and actress

* 1971 – Adam Housley, American journalist

* 1971 – David Monahan, American actor

* 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress ( d. 1971 )

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – DJ Spinderella, American DJ, rapper, and producer ( Salt-n-Pepa )

* 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Selena, American singer-songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1971 – Peter Billingsley, American actor

* 1971 – Mark Loretta, American baseball player

* 1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Rulon Gardner, American wrestler

* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director

* 1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress

* 1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, American actress

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

Stevie Smith, the poet and novelist, lived in Palmers Green from 1905 until her death in 1971, also that year, Joe Strummer shared a flat at 18 Ash Grove with Tymon Dogg and several others.

The Dutch novelist Simon Vestdijk lived in Doorn for a great part of his life ( between 1939 and 1971, a few short intervals excepted ).

The game is the core and subject of a novel by French novelist Joseph Kessel titled Les Cavaliers ( aka Horsemen ) as well as of the film The Horseman ( 1971 ), which was directed by John Frankenheimer with Omar Sharif in the lead role.

* August 3-Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist ( died 1971 )

* Matt Coyle ( b. 1971 ), graphic novelist, was born in Nantwich.

* A. P. Herbert ( 1890 – 1971 ) – humourist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist

* September 24-A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist ( died 1971 )

Evelyn Lau (); ( born July 2, 1971 ) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Edith Mary Tolkien ( 21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971 ; née Bratt ), was the wife and muse of novelist J. R. R. Tolkien.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

William Sutcliffe ( born 1971 ) is a British novelist.

His next two films, La Salamandre ( 1971 ) and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 ( 1976 ), were made in close collaboration with the art critic and novelist John Berger, who had also worked with him, to a lesser degree and without a credit, on the writing of Charles.

The ashes of famous novelist Yukio Mishima ( 1925 – 1970 ) were stolen in 1971 and the ashes of novelist Naoya Shiga were stolen in 1980.

* John Wray ( novelist ) ( born 1971 ), American novelist

* Joe Walker ( novelist ) ( 1910 – 1971 ), Australian novelist and union organiser

Raymond William Postgate ( 6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971 ) was an English socialist, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet.

* Matt Coyle ( b. 1971 ), English-born Australian artist and novelist