About the day » Sunday October 31, 1971Calender converter

• GEERT METS, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1971)
• matheus theodorus johannes (maico) martens, helden-beringe
• Pieter Nicolaas Doornbos, Zandeweer
• Michelle Marie Mahoney († 1971)
• Roel Sillis

• Cornelia Francisca Maria Maaijen (75), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Ariën de Vries (63)
• Antonie Matheus Nooijen (76), Den Bosch
• Adrianus Baars (59), Rotterdam,Zuid Holland,The Netherlands
• Caroline Diana Rosalind Russell (97), Surrey, England
• Alexander Morrison
• Antje BEUTE (55), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Albert Leland Bruce (58), Shattuck, Ellis, Oklahoma, United States
• Anna Catharina Vermeeren (85), Rotterdam
• Antje Geerts Hoekstra (79), Ljouwert, Friesland, Nederland

• 1970 » Linn Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base)
• 1971 » Alphonso Ford, American basketball player († 2004)
• 1971 » Ian Walker, English footballer and manager
• 1971 » Irina Pantaeva, Russian model and actress
• 1971 » Phil Tataurangi, New Zealand golfer
• 1971 » Tom Smith, English-Scottish rugby player and coach
• 1972 » Grigoris Georgatos, Greek footballer
• 1972 » Matt Dawson, English rugby player
• 1972 » Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer and manager
• 1973 » Paul Abrahams, English footballer and coach

• 1959 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1960 » H. L. Davis, American author and poet (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Mesut Cemil, Turkish cellist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Sachin Dev Burman, Indian composer and singer (b. 1906)
• 1977 » C. B. Colby, American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1983 » George Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Marco
5. Peter
6. Marcel
7. Jeroen
8. Mark
9. Richard
10. Michael
11. Patrick
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.
• 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.
• February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
• June 7 » The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
• September 8 » In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• 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 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

The temperature on October 31, 1971 was between 5.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.