About the day » Friday May 21, 1971Calender converter

• Rebecca Vaun Ward, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Linette Marie Benson, St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Raymond Vincent Oosterhof, Eindhoven († 2010)
• Ilona Terstall, Amsterdam
• Marcus Antonius Schuurmans, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Anna Antonia Minarowitz (86), Wien, Austria
• Cornelia de Snoo (80)
• Antonie Kuijntjes (78), Oud Beijerland, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Bertha Maria Huyghe (72), Chaumont-en-Vexin, Oise, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertus Haalboom (49)
• Berend Ensink (52), Coevorden
• Andrew Cornelius Lieuwen (86)
• Anje Geertsdr Schanssema- (87), Appingedam, Nederland
• Christian W Krueger (52), Hot Springs, Fall River, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Andrzej (Andreas Josef) Warnke (81), Berlin

• 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
• 1972 » The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper († 1997)

• 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)
• 1983 » Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (b. 1903)

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.
• January 12 » The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
• February 5 » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
• November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
• November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
• December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.

The temperature on May 21, 1971 was between 6.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (92%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.