About the day » Saturday February 21, 1970Calender converter

• Glen James Porter, Adelaide, South Australia, Australië († 1993)
• Carolien Veld, Avereest († 1970)
• Carola Erica Jacobusdr. Moleman, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Michael Adrianus Johannes Wolf, Renkum, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2018)
• Roelof Pieter Hilbrink, Vledder, Wilhelminaoord, Drenthe, Nederland
• Karin Veld († 1970)
• Bernardus Johann Coers, Phoenix, Maricopa County († 1970)

• Carel Hendrik Fritzsche (56), Bussum, Nederland
• Aaltje KNOOP (60)
• Carel H. Fritzsche (56)
• Biense Jans Visser (79)
• Aaltje BAARDMAN (81), Huizen, Netherlands
• Catharina van Haaren (81), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus van Vlierberghe (72), Heikant (D'Heije)
• Barend de Vries (79), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna de Wolff (91), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Johann Coers (0), Phoenix, Maricopa County

• 1967 » Leroy Burrell, American runner and coach
• 1969 » Aunjanue Ellis, American actress and producer
• 1969 » Cathy Richardson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1969 » Petra Kronberger, Austrian skier
• 1969 » Tony Meola, American soccer player and manager
• 1970 » Eric Wilson, American bass player and drummer
• 1970 » Michael Slater, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Pierre Fulke, Swedish golfer
• 1972 » Seo Taiji, South Korean singer-songwriter

• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)

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

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
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 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.
• January 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
• June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
• September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
• October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on February 21, 1970 was between 1.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 17.8 mm of rain during 15.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.