About the day » Friday August 6, 1971Calender converter

• John VAN HAM, Chicago, Illinois († 1971)
• Paul James Manly, Placer, California († 2012)

• Berendientje van Grafhorst (71), Rotterdam
• Aloijsius Franciscus Bakkers (69), Tilburg
• Cornelis Bregman (87), Loosduinen
• Bert Prevaas (24), Heer,, Limburg, Nederland
• Carolina Bouwen (89), Herentals, België
• Charlotte Desirée Jeannette Hooijmeijer (16), amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelia Haasnoot (65), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Deimann (77), Emmercompascuum, Emmen
• Cornelius De Schutter (84), Taytay, Manila
• Andries van Boxsel (54), Breda, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1969 » Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1969 » Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1970 » M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Darren Eales, English footballer and lawyer
• 1972 » Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1972 » Paolo Bacigalupi, American author
• 1972 » Ray Lucas, American football player and sportscaster
• 1973 » Iain Morris, English screenwriter and producer
• 1973 » Max Kellerman, American sportscaster and radio host
• 1973 » Vera Farmiga, American actress

• 1959 » Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)

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. 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.
• February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
• March 12 » The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
• March 26 » East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
• August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
• August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.

The temperature on August 6, 1971 was between 14.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.