Federal government edit

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
• Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court edit

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors edit

• Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA formed.
• June 10: Corpus Christi massacre.
• June 10: Opening of the Metro Observatorio.
• September 3–13: Hurricane Fern.
• September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.
• November 11: National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics is established.

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Torres Bodet

February edit

• February 10 — Lorena Rojas, actress and singer (d. 2015)
• February 22 — Super Caló, wrestler

May edit

• May 14 − Mónica Arriola Gordillo, politician (New Alliance Party), Deputy (2006-2009); (d. 2016).

June edit

• June 16 – Alejandro Jano Fuentes, singer
• June 17 — Paulina Rubio, singer

July edit

• July 12 — Andrea Legarreta, actress and TV host

August edit

• August 26 — Thalía, singer

November edit

• November 24 — Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, acting Governor of Puebla 2018-2019

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• Emma Laura, soap opera actress

• August 11 – Archbishop Manuel Pío López Estrada, 6th bishop of Veracruz, and first archbishop of Xalapa, 1939-1968 (b. May 5, 1891)^[2]

• List of Mexican films of 1971.

• 1970–71 Mexican Primera División season.
• Charros de Jalisco win the Mexican League.
• September 19: Atlético Español founded.