In the year 1971, cigarette advertisements are banned on radio and television in the United States (Jan 2), All in the Family debuts on CBS (Jan 12), Idi Amin becomes president of Uganda, and Charles Manson is found guilty in Los Angeles (Jan 25), Bangladesh declares itself an independent country (May 31), Neville Bonner becomes the first indigenous Australian to sit in the country’s parliament (Jun 11), Jim Morrison is found dead in Paris (Jul 3), Apollo 15 astronauts ride the first lunar rover on the Moon(Jul 31), Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida (Oct 1), Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, Canada (Oct 14), Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully (Nov 13), Starbucks is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1971-xxxx Ruben Meerman* Australian scientist/ educator/ public speaker - Vlissingen, Netherlands
1971-0101 Denise Stapley* sex therapist/Survivor S25 Contestant - Cedar Rapids, IA USA
1971-0102 Yutaka Takenouchi* 竹野内 豊 model/actor - Tokyo, Japan
1971-0107 Jeremy Renner* actor/singer/ producer - Modesto, CA USA
1971-0108 Ben Byer* actor/ playwright/documentarist (Indestructible) - Cleveland, OH USA (2008/37)
1971-0109 MF Doom* (b Daniel Dumile) British-American rapper - London, England (2020/49)
1971-0111 Mary J. Blige* rapper/ actress/entrepreneur - New York City, NY USA
1971-0112 Arman Alizad* Finnish-Iranian master tailor/TV-personality - Tehran, Iran
1971-0112 Peter Madsen* engineer/ convicted of murder - Copenhagen, Denmark
1971-0115 Regina King* actress/ film director - Los Angeles, CA USA
1971-0118 Pep Guardiola* football player/ manager - Santpedor, Spain
1971-0118 Binyavanga Wainaina* author/journalist - Nakuru, Kenya (2019/48)
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1971-0121 Doug Weight* hockey player/OS/coach - Warren, MI USA
1971-0122 Matt Iseman* physician/stand-up comedian/actor - Denver, CO USA
1971-0122 Damian Walshe-Howling* actor - Mellbourne, Victoria, Australia
1971-0130 Darren Boyd* actor - Hastings, Sussex, England
1971-0131 Patricia Velásquez* - model/actress - Maracaibo, Venezuela
1971-02xx Liisa Repo-Martell* actress/ artist/w Finnish mother - Toronto, ON Canada
1971-0201 Michael C. Hall* actor (Dexter) - Raleigh, NC USA
1971-0201 Tommy Salo* hockey goalie/OG - Surahammar, Sweden
1971-0206 Antti Haapakoski* hurdler/WJC - Kalajoki, Finland
1971-0211 Damian Lewis* actor - St. John´s Wood, London, England
1971-0213 Mats Sundin* hockey player (NHL 100) - Bromma, Sweden
1971-0214 Marko Jantunen* hockey player - Lahti, Finland
1971-0216 Amanda Holden* actress/ talent-show judge - Portsmouth, England
1971-0220 Jari Litmanen* football player - Lahti, Finland
1971-0225 Sean Astin* actor - Santa Monica, CA USA
1971-0226 Sean Baker* film director - NJ USA
1971-0301
1971-0307 Aga Mikolaj* (b Agnieszka Mikołajczyk ) opera singer - Kutno, Poland (2021/50)
1971-0307 Peter Sarsgaard* actor/ Danish heritage - Scott Air Force Base, St. Claire County, IL USA
1971-0308 Bob Boughner* hockey player/coach - Windsor, ON Canada
1971-0310 Jon Hamm* actor - St. Louis, MO USA
1971-0311 Jonas Karlsson* actor - Salem, Stockholm County, Sweden
1971-0316 Laurent Capelluto* Belgian actor - Kinshasa, Zaire
1971-0316 Alan Tudyk* actor/ voice actor - El Paso, TX USA
1971-0317 Juliana Hodkinson* composer - Exeter, England
1971-0319 Whitney Hedgepeth* swimmer/OG - Charlottesville, VA USA
1971-0320 Robb Wells* actor/screenwriter - Moncton, NB CAN
1971-0322 Iben Hjejle* actress - Copenhagen, Denmark
1971-0322 Keegan-Michael Key* comedian/ actor/producer - Southfield, MI USA
1971-0323 Karen McDougal* model/ actress - Merrillville, IN USA
1971-0324 Tig Notaro* stand-up comedian/actress/writer - Jackson, MS USA
1971-0326 Francis Lawrence* American film director - Vienna, Austria
1971-0327 Nathan Fillion* actor - Edmonton, AB Canada
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1971-0331 Pavel Bure* hockey player (NHL 100) - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1971-0331 Klaus Härö* film director - Porvoo, Finland
1971-0331 Ewan McGregor* actor - Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
1971-0401
1971-0402 Traci Braxton* singer/ reality television and radio personality - Severn, MD USA (2022/50)
1971-0405 Krista Allen* actress/ model/stand-up comic - Ventura, CA USA
1971-0408 Craig Mazin* screenwriter/ film director - Brooklyn, NY USA
1971-0409 Earl Cole* entrepreneur/Survivor S14 Contestant - Kansas City, KS USA
1971-0409 Jacques Villeneuve* racing driver/WC - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC Canada
1971-0410 Joey DeFrancesco* trumpeter/saxophonist/jazz organist - Springfield, PA USA (2022/51)
1971-0411 Oliver Riedel* musician/Rammstein - Schwerin, East Germany
1971-0412 Shannon Doherty* actress/producer/ director - Memphis, TN USA
1971-0414 Jutta Jokiranta* (b Miettinen) theologian/professor in Hebrew Bible - Salla, Finland
1971-0415 Finidi George* football player - Port Harcourt, Nigeria
1971-0416 Selena Quintanilla-Pérezlena* singer/ actress/philanthropist - Lake Jackson, TX USA (1995/23)
1971-0416 Natasha Zvereva* tennis player - Minsk, Belarus, Soviet Union
1971-0418 David Tennant* (b McDonald) actor - Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
1971-0419 Gad Elmaleh* Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian/actor - Casablanca, Morocco
1971-0420
1971-0422 Daisuke Enomoto* 榎本 大輔 businessman/first Japanese space tourist - Matsudo, Japan
1971-0424 Kumar Dharmasena* cricketer/cricket umpire - Colombo, Sri Lanka
1971-0427 Jussi Halla-aho* linguist/ politician - Tampere, Finland
1971-0429
1971-0430 John Boyne* novelist - Dublin, Ireland
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1971-0510
1971-0514 Sofia Coppola* actress/film director - New York, NY USA
1971-0517 Queen Máxima of the Netherlands* wife of King Willem-Alexander - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1971-0518 Johan Bäckman* political activist/legal sociologist - Porvoo, Finland
1971-0520 Šárka Kašpárková* triple jumper/WC/OB - Karviná, Czechoslovakia
1971-0528 Krista Harrison* student/ homicide victim - Orrville, OH USA (1982/11)
1971-0530 Jiří Šlégr* hockey player/3GC - Jihlava, Czechoslovakia
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1971-0601
1971-0603 Benedict Wong* actor - Eccles, Greater Manchester, England
1971-0604 Peter Jöback* singer/ actor - Stockholm, Sweden
1971-0604 Noah Wyle* actor - Hollywood, CA USA
1971-0605 Mark Wahlberg* actor/producer/restaurateur - Boston, MA USA
1971-0606 Elina Knihtilä* actress - Valkeala, Finland
1971-0607 Bertha Acarapi* television presenter/politician/of Aymara descent - La Paz, Bolivia
1971-0608 Krista Kruuv* Olympic sailor - Tartu, Estonia, Soviet Union
1971-0610
1971-0615 Jake Busey* actor/musician/film producer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1971-0616 Tupac Shakur* rapper/actor - East Harlem, NY USA (1996/25)
1971-0619 Alan Van Sprang* actor/ producer - Calgary, AB Canada
1971-0620 Josh Lucas* actor - Little Rock, AR USA
1971-0621 Pedro Alonso* actor (La casa de papel) - Vigo, Galicia, Spain
1971-0625 Angela Kinsey* actress - Lafayette, LA USA
1971-0628 Benito Martinez* actor - Albuquerque, NM USA
1971-0628 Elon Musk* entrepreneur/engineer/ inventor - Pretoria, South Africa
1971-0629
1971-0630 Aaron Gunches* convicted murderer - USA (2025/53)
1971-0630 Monica Potter* (b Brokaw) actress - Cleveland, OH USA
1971-0701 Julianne Nicholson* actress - Medford, MA USA
1971-0701 Lorenzo Woodrose* (b Uffe Lorenzen) musician - Denmark
1971-0702
1971-0703 Julian Assange* founder of WikiLeaks - Townsville, Queensland, Australia
1971-0705
1971-0708 Joe Russo* film director/screenwriter/actor - Cleveland, OH USA
1971-0709 Marc Andreessen* software engineer/entrepreneur (Mosaic) - Cedar Falls, IA USA
1971-0709 Scott Grimes* actor - Lowell, MA USA
1971-0710 Erika Jayne* singer/television personality - Atlanta, GA USA
1971-0712 Kristi Yamaguchi* figure skater/WC/OG - Hayward, CA USA
1971-0716 Corey Feldman*actor/singer - Reseda, CA USA
1971-0718 Erika Stefani* lawyer/politician - Valdagno, Vicenza, Italy
1971-0719 Vitali Klitschko* Ukrainian boxer/ politician/mayor of Kyiv - Belovodskoye, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union
1971-0720 Sandra Oh* actress (Killing Eve) - Nepean, ON Canada
1971-0721 Charlotte Gainsbourg* actress - London, England
1971-0722 Mikheil Kavelashvili* football player/politician/P - Bolnisi, Georgia, Soviet Union
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1971-0726 Chris Harrison* television and game show host - Dallas, TX USA
1971-0730 Tom Green* actor/rapper/talk show host - Pembroke, ON Canada
1971-0802 Ruth Lawrence* mathematician - Brighton, England
1971-0803 Guy Boucher* hockey coach - Notre-Dame-du-Lac, QC Canada
1971-0805 Teemu Keskisarja* historian/ author/politician - Helsinki, Finland
1971-0810 Luca Guadagnino* screenwriter/ film director/producer - Palermo, Italy
1971-0812 Glen Gulutzan* hockey player/coach - The Pas, MB Canada
1971-0812 Pete Sampras* tennis player - Washington D.C. USA
1971-0813
1971-0814 Scott Michael Campbell* actor/writer/director - Missoula, MT US
1971-0814 Peter Franzén* actor/ writer/director - Keminmaa, Finland
1971-0815
1971-0816 Rulon Gardner* wrestler/OG (defeated Aleksandr Karelin)/ motivational speaker - Afton, WY USA
1971-0816 Kari Ketonen* actor/ psychoherapist - Espoo, Finland
1971-0819 Mary Joe Fernández* American tennis player/OG- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1971-0820 Ke Huy Quan* Vietnamese-American actor/stunt choreographer/to U.S. at age 7 - Saigon, South Vietnam
1971-0820 David Walliams* comedian/ author/talent-show judge - Merton, London, England
1971-0822 Richard Armitage* actor - Huncote, Leicestershire, England
1971-0825 Claire Rushbrook* actress - Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
1971-0829 Carla Gugino* actress - Sarasota, FL USA
1971-0831 Chris Tucker* stand-up comedian/ actor - Atlanta, GA USA
1971-0901 Daniel Hannan* British politician/writer/journalist - Lima, Peru
1971-0903 Tiina Lymi* actress/ director/screenwriter - Tampere, Finland
1971-0906 Dolores O’Riordan* singer-songwriter - Ballybricken, Limerick, Ireland (2018/46)
1971-0907 Lisa Rogers* television presenter/actress/writer - Cardiff, Wales
1971-0908 David Arquette* actor - Bentonville, VA USA
1971-0909 Eric Stonestreet* actor (Modern Family) - Kansas City, KS USA
1971-0909 Henry Thomas* actor (E.T.)/ musician - San Antonio, TX USA
1971-0910
1971-0913 Ezio Bosso* pianist/composer/conductor - Turin, Italy (2020/48)
1971-0915 Josh Charles* actor - Baltimore, MD USA
1971-0916 Amy Poehler* actress - Newton, MA USA
1971-0918 Jada Pinkett Smith* actress - Baltimore, MD USA
1971-0919 Sanaa Lathan* actress /voice actress - New York city, NY USA
1971-0919 Ville Pusa* Finnish musician - Gothenburg, Sweden
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1971-0921 Alfonso Ribeiro* actor - The Bronx, NY USA
1971-0921 Luke Wilson* actor - Dallas, TX USA
1971-0922 Lawrence Gilliard Jr.* actor - New York City, NY USA
1971-0922 Märtha Louise* Princess of Norway - Oslo, Norway
1971-0930 Tobias Zilliacus* actor - Helsinki, Finland
1971-10xxx Brent Renaud* photojournalist/ documentary filmmaker/ - Memphis, TN USA (2022/50)
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1971-1010 Evgeny Kissin* pianist/ composer - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1971-1011 Aman Verma* actor /television anchor - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
1971-1013 Sacha Baron Cohen* stand-up comedian - Hammersmith, London, England
1971-1013 Luis Tosar* actor /musician - Lugo, Spain
1971-1014 Jyrki Katainen* politician - Siilinjärvi, Finland
1971-1020 Kenneth Choi* actor - Chicago, IL USA
1971-1021 Jade Jagger* British-French model/jewellery & home designer/daughter of Mick Jagger - Paris, France
1971-1021 Thomas Ulsrud* curling player/OS - Oslo, Norway (2022/50)
1971-1024 Dervla Kirwan* actress - Dublin, Ireland
1971-1025 Craig Robinson* actor/comedian/singer - Chicago, IL USA
1971-1026 Rosemarie DeWitt* actress/married to Ron Livingston - Queens, NY USA
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1971-1029 Winona Ryder* actress - Winona, MN USA
1971-1031
1971-11xx Jennifer Robertson* actress/comedian/ writer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1971-1101 Niklas Åkerfelt* actor - Helsinki, Finland
1971-1109 Melinda Kinnaman * American-Swedish actress/half-sister of Joel Kinnaman - Stockholm, Sweden
1971-1110 Walton Goggins* actor - Birmingham, AL USA
1971-1111 David DeLuise* actor/ television director/son of Dom DeLuise - Burbank, CA USA
1971-1115 Fredrik Virtanen* journalist/talk show host - Motala, Sweden
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1971-1124 Keith Primeau* hockey player/WC - Toronto, ON Canada
1971-1124 Lior Raz* ליאור רז commando/ actor/screenwriter - Ma’ale Adumim, Israel
1971-1125 Christina Applegate* actress - Hollywood, CA USA
1971-1126 Ninibeth Leal* Miss World 1991/businesswoman - Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
1971-1130 Jessalyn Gilsig* actress - Montreal, QC Canada
1971-1201 Mika Pohjola* jazz pianist/composer - Helsinki, Finland
1971-1203 Ola Rapace* (b Norell) actor/musician - Tyresö, Sweden
1971-1205 Dolly Wells* (b Gatacre) actress/writer - Merton, London, England
1971-1210
1971-1215 Hassan Zubier* paramedic/ the first foreigner to receive the Finnish Rescue Medal - Kent, England BBC
1971-1218 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario* tennis player - Barcelona, Spain
1971-1220
1971-1225 Justin Trudeau* politician/PM - Ottawa, ON Canada
1971-1226 Jared Leto* actor/singer - Bossier City, LA USA
1971-1226 Alexandra Rapaport* actress - Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden
1971-1227 Gwendolyn Zepeda* author - Houston, TX USA
1971-1228 Marc Gassot* Finnish-French actor/mimic/w French father - Kuopio, Finland
1971-1229
1971-1230 Chris Fisher* attorney/ writer/director - Pasadena, CA USA - IMDb
1971-1230 Daniel Sunjata* actor - Evanston, IL USA
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