About the day » Sunday August 1, 1971Calender converter

• Sven Alfons Everaert, Lokeren
• Brigitte Voortmans
• Peter Jay Newton <K USZ>0, Torrance, Los Angeles County, California († 1995)
• Fred Rietveld († 1997)
• Christel van Dissel, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• David Brent Schuller, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1971)
• Freddy L. Rietveld, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• N.N. Zaman, Sluiskil († 1971)

• Andreas Cornelis van Harmelen (80), Schiedam
• Alida Kosters (54), Amsterdam
• Celina Paulina SEGHERS (78)
• Bote (Kornelis) de Haan (67)
• Arie LOEF (83), Boskoop
• Casteel (91), Albright, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus van den Aker (85), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Angeline Clay (80), Indinia
• Antonius Johannes Reimink (55), Hellendoorn
• Alexander Campbell McDONALD (78)

• 1969 » Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
• 1969 » Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player and scout
• 1970 » David James, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
• 1970 » Quentin Coryatt, American football player
• 1972 » Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer and coach
• 1972 » Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and academic
• 1972 » Todd Bouman, American football player and coach

• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)

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. Anna
7. Saskia
8. Jolanda
9. Ingrid
10. Karin
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.
• February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
• February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
• February 11 » Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
• February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
• September 29 » Oman joins the Arab League.

The temperature on August 1, 1971 was between 10.4 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.