page_title: 1971
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1971 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
context_page_description: 1971 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.
  The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses and two total lunar eclipses.
  The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
context_section_description: October 2
  Jessie Arms Botke, American artist (b. 1883)
  Richard H. Jackson, American admiral (b. 1866)
  October 3 – Leah Baird, American actress (b. 1883)
  October 6 – Debaki Bose, Bengali director, writer, and actor (b. 1898)
  October 7
  Henry Shoemaker Conard, American botanist (b. 1874)
  Sergey Kavtaradze, Soviet politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
  October 8 – Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Dutch composer (b. 1892)
  October 9 – Peter Rindskopf, American civil rights lawyer (b. 1942)
  October 10 – Sir Cyril Burt, British educational psychologist (b. 1883)
  October 11
  Albert E. Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
  Chester Conklin, American comedic actor (b. 1886)
  Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1944)
  October 12
  Dean Acheson, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
  Gene Vincent, American singer (b. 1935)
  October 13
  Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (b. 1894)
  Abdul Monem Khan, Pakistani politician, Governor of East Pakistan (b. 1899)
  Hans Ledersteger, Austrian art director (b. 1898)
  October 16
  Robin Boyd, Australian architect (b. 1919)
  Richard Thomas Alexander, American educator and influential education theorist (b. 1887)
  October 19 – Betty Bronson, American actress (b. 1906)
  October 21
  Raymond Hatton, American actor (b. 1887)
  Naoya Shiga, Japanese writer (b. 1883)
  October 24 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
  October 27 – Gustave Baumann, American printmaker and painter (b. 1881)
  October 29
  Duane Allman, American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (b. 1946)
  Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
caption: Arne Tiselius
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