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• Huig Pieter Meindert van Beelen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Hendrika Johanna Maria van Rooij, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Michel Biemans († 2005)
• Aagje Post († 2017)
• Bastien Eugène Huibert Maria Goossens, Oosterbeek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1972)
• Jolanda Alofs († 1990)

• Arie Anker (92), Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Jozef Hermans (77), Heerlen
• Anna Gertruida van der Put (80), Leiden
• Charles William Farnsworth (82), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Geertruida (Net) van der Put (80)
• Aafke Pieters Coopmans (82), Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clazina Nieuwenhuizen (74), GORINCHEM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelius "Neal" Grifhorst (81), Canby, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Maria Mutsaers (56), Tilburg
• adriana van DRIEL (84), oud-beijerland

• 1969 » Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1969 » Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1969 » Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
• 1969 » Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
• 1969 » PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
• 1969 » Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
• 1970 » Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect
• 1970 » Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 » Steve Jablonsky, American composer
• 1971 » Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1967 » André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 » Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1972 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (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.
• January 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• January 31 » The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
• February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
• March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
• August 1 » The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• December 3 » Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins.

The temperature on October 9, 1971 was between 9.6 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.