About the day » Monday August 16, 1971Calender converter

• John Glenn TenHaken, Sheboygan, WI (US) († 1971)
• Sandro Roberto Silveira da Silva, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil († 1993)

• Cornelia Marcelina Petrus- (85), Hoorn, Nederland
• Cornelia Hoogland (81), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albertus van Wel (85), Koog aan de Zaan
• Antonius Wilhelmus Blom (59), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Cornelis Merbel van de (90), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Aldegonda Hubertina Bartholomé (71), Ubachsberg, Voerendaal
• Catharina Johanna de Ruijter (66), Beverwijk
• Aukje Elizabeth Huizenga (50), Zeerijp, 't Zandt, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Marcelina Petrus (85), Hoorn
• Annie WEEDEN (81)

• 1968 » Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
• 1968 » Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
• 1970 » Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1970 » Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
• 1970 » Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor and producer
• 1971 » Stefan Klos, German footballer
• 1972 » Emily Robison, American singer-songwriter and banjo player
• 1972 » Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian and television host
• 1972 » Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
• 1973 » Damian Jackson, American baseball player

• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
• 1978 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)
• 1979 » John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)

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 8 » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
• February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• August 5 » The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
• September 21 » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
• December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
• December 8 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

The temperature on August 16, 1971 was between 7.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.