Centuries:
Year in Review 20th Century
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
Births
Deaths
- January 30 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
- January - [Zhou Enlai]?, prime minister of China, of cancer
- February 11 - [Lee J Cobb]?, actor.
- February 11 - [Alice Allen]?, actress.
- February 11 - [Charlie Naughton]?, actor.
- Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
- [Ulrike Meinhof]? of the Red Army Faction commits suicide
- August 4 - First outbreak of [Legionaire's disease]? kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia
- September 21 - Orlando Letelier assasinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator [Augusto Pinochet]?
- Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist
- Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and political and civil rights activist.
- Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
- Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal
Events
Nobel Prizes