Curated category
1971 deaths
- Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong borrowed his stepfather's gun without permission on the 31st of December 1912, fired a blank into the air, and spent the night at New Orleans…
- Nikita KhrushchevNikita Khrushchev stood before a closed session of the 20th Party Congress on the 25th of February 1956, and in four hours dismantled the reputation of a man…
- Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky once received a score back from his mentor in the mail, returned with a note reading: "Not delivered on account of death of addressee." That…
- Jim MorrisonJim Morrison was found dead in a Paris bathtub on the morning of Saturday, the 3rd of July, 1971. He was 27 years old. No doctor had been called.
- Gene VincentGene Vincent was born Vincent Eugene Craddock on the 11th of February 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia, and he died at 36, largely forgotten in his home country…
- Jacobo ÁrbenzJacobo Árbenz stood at a podium on the 15th of March 1951, promising to convert Guatemala from "a backward country with a predominantly feudal economy into a…
- Mátyás RákosiMátyás Rákosi ran Hungary's Communist state with a grip so total that, by the late 1940s, no meaningful opposition remained.
- Hermann HothHermann Hoth was sentenced to 15 years in prison in October 1948 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, yet just six years later he walked free on…
- Allan NevinsAllan Nevins grew up on a farm in Camp Point, Illinois, the son of a stern Presbyterian farmer of Scottish descent and a German-heritage mother named Emma.
- Frank RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt died on the 11th of July, 1971 - his 43rd birthday - in a boating accident on Chesapeake Bay. It was the same date he was born, in 1928, in…
- Hans KohnHans Kohn was born on the 15th of September 1891 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. The city belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that…