About the day » Wednesday October 20, 1971Calender converter

• Kimberly Neal Pierce, New Hanover County, North Carolina († 1987)
• Richard James Hickman, Wellington, Telford, Shropshire († 2020)
• René Knegt, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 2005)
• Bessie Mae Waters, Warren County, Kentucky († 2009)

• Charles Carolus Petrus Marie Van Damme (67), Eeklo
• Bartje Wassink (67), Harderwijk
• Adriana Wessels (67), Utrecht
• Aaltje Janna Lokken (49), Rotterdam
• Anna Hawes Keyser (83), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Bouke Bies (60)
• Caroline van Kuilenburg (65), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert G Aldering (73), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Arnoldus JANSSEN (77)
• Charles Eysel Denman Lilford (75), Edenvale, Johannesburg, East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa

• 1970 » Aapo Ilves, Estonian poet and illustrator
• 1970 » Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
• 1970 » Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman († 2011)
• 1970 » Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer
• 1971 » Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Eddie Jones, American basketball player
• 1971 » Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner
• 1971 » Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 » Pie Geelen, Dutch swimmer
• 1972 » Will Greenwood, English rugby player and sportscaster

• 1964 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Bud Flanagan, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1972 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Steve Gaines, American guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1978 » Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1983 » Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

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. Hendrik

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.
• February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
• February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
• March 26 » East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
• April 1 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
• June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

The temperature on October 20, 1971 was between 9.0 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.