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• Gerrit Spoelman, Hardenberg († 1972)
• André Schutzdeller-Wittek, Ratingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Valerie Renae Westmaas, Cadillac Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Mark Johannes Hermanus Wilbrink, Amsterdam
• Jörg Schwarberg († 1989)
• Valerie Renae Westmaas, Michigan/Amerika († 2010)

• Apolonia Gerarda van den Berg (66)
• Adrianus Petrus Marinus Verhoeven, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Kerkmeijer (80), Olst, Eikelhof
• Cornelia Johans Driebergen (87), Rijnsburg
• Anna Kant (81), Winschoten
• Antonia Engelberta Cornelia Langermans (47), Sprang-Capelle
• Antonia Johanna Mulder (75), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Reisbergen (99), Schiedam
• Coenrard van den Munckhof (75), Horst
• Albert Edward Smith (85), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

• 1969 » Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican-American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1970 » Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
• 1970 » Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer
• 1971 » Caroline Dinenage, English businesswoman and politician
• 1971 » Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress († 2010)
• 1972 » Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1972 » Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 » Trista Sutter, American reality star

• 1959 » Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
• 1963 » Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882)
• 1969 » Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 » Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
• 1978 » Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
• January 22 » The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
• February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
• April 19 » Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
• May 3 » Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
• May 27 » Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
• September 11 » The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.

The temperature on October 28, 1971 was between 1.3 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.