* 1971 – Aygül Özkan, German politician

* 1971 – Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor

* 1971 – Heike Makatsch, German actress

* 1971 – Stefan Klos, German footballer

* 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

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

* 1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer

* 1971 – Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer

* 1971 – Junya Nakano, Japanese composer

* 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1903 – Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer and composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1876 – Carl Ruggles, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

* 1971 – Marco Oppedisano, American guitarist and composer

* 1971 – Carlo Forlivesi, Italian composer

* 1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer

* 1971 – Ahn Jae-wook, South Korean actor, singer, and composer

* 1971 – Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer

* 1971 – Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and songwriter

* 1971 – Dustin O ' Halloran, American pianist and composer

* December 21 – Leroy Robertson, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* May 10 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer ( d. 1971 )

* March 11 – Carl Ruggles, American composer ( d. 1971 )

** Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer ( d. 1971 )

* May 3 – Marcel Dupré, French composer ( d. 1971 )

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( sometimes spelled Strawinsky or Stravinskii ; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij ; ; 6 April 1971 ) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor.

* Marcel Dupré ( 1886 – 1971 ), organist and composer

* Igor Stravinsky – ( 1882 – 1971 ), Russian composer