About the day » Thursday May 21, 1970Calender converter

• Adriaan Lelyveld († 1973)
• John van der Sanden, Heemstede,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Andrea Marina Nummerdor, Gemeente Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1997)
• Kevin Lee Haston, Alamosa, County († 1988)
• Engelina van Dijk († 2014)
• Thomas S Wright, Trenton, Michigan, United States († 2015)
• Heather M. Smith, San Diego, CA
• Simone Kamerling, Rotterdam

• Egidius VAN DER PLAS (75), Oppuurs,2890,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Algy Kenneth DENNIS (53), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Alma P Pool (74), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
• Cornelis Adriaan Visser (73), Sliedrecht
• Clementine NASSEN (1881), Munsterbilzen (Limburg) (B)
• Alexander Joseph Marius Ambroise (80), Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Aaltje Evertsen (60)
• * Martinus Pulles (71), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Dirk Verstoep (70), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Albert Klaas Karel (70), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1968 » Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Brian Statham, Rhodesian born English footballer, defender and manager
• 1969 » George LeMieux, American lawyer and politician
• 1969 » Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director († 2000)
• 1969 » Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1969 » Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
• 1970 » Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler
• 1970 » Carl Veart, Australian footballer and coach
• 1970 » Dorsey Levens, American football player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Pauline Menczer, Australian surfer

• 1957 » Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1964 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Marguerite Bise, French chef (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Doris Lloyd, English actress (b. 1896)
• 1970 » E. L. Grant Watson, English-Australian biologist and author (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Ivan Konev, Soviet Marshal and general (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Patsy O'Hara, INLA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1981 » Raymond McCreesh, PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Marcel
8. Jeroen
9. Pieter
10. Michael
11. Hendrik
12. Patrick
13. Marco
14. Mark
15. Willem
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Linda
8. Ingrid
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Nathalie
16. Elisabeth

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
• January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
• January 5 » The 7.1 M_w  Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
• March 21 » The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
• August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
• September 19 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
• October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

The temperature on May 21, 1970 was between 7.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.