Editing 1971 (section)

===April===
[[File:Igor Stravinsky LOC 32392u.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Igor Stravinsky]]]]
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* [[April 3]] – [[Joseph Valachi]], American gangster (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Mobster|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/30511933/?terms=%22Joseph%2BValachi%22|access-date=October 8, 2016|work=Independent Press-Telegram|location=Long Beach, California|date=April 4, 1971|page=2|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217185509/https://www.newspapers.com/image/30511933/?terms=%22Joseph%2BValachi%22|archive-date=February 17, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Igor Stravinsky]], Russian composer (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0617.html | work=The New York Times | title=Igor Stravinsky, the Composer, Dead at 88}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] – [[Igor Tamm]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Jagdish |last1=Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra|first2=Helmut |last2=Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg|title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA240|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95178-2|pages=240}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[Friedebert Tuglas]], Estonian writer and critic (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkMAAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=636}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – [[Earl Thomson]], Canadian athlete (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Cecil Parker]], English actor (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Shavian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEpbAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Shaw Society|page=160}}</ref>
* [[April 21]]
** [[François Duvalier]], 32nd [[President of Haiti]] (b. [[1907]])<ref>"Duvalier, 64, Dies in Haiti; Son, 19 Is New President", by Homer Bigart, ''The New York Times'', April 23, 1971, p1</ref>
** [[Edmund Lowe]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 25]] – [[T. V. Soong]], [[List of premiers of the Republic of China|Premier of the Republic of China]] (b. [[1891]])<ref>"Soong Choked to Death on Food, Coroner Says", ''Los Angeles Times'', April 27, 1971, p28</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Albin Stenroos]], Finnish athlete (b. [[1889]])