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• Steven VanderZiel, Rankin County, Mississippi, VS († 1979)
• Serge Suijkerbuijk, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Stefan (Steef) Kleverlaan († 2012)
• Maria Hendrieka Dingelhoff, Wageningen (Gelderland) Nederland

• Adelheid Albertine Marie Babette VON SCHORLEMMER (89), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Adelheid Albertine Mathilde Marie Babette von Schorlemer (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Andreas Stephanus Dekkers (68), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adelheid Albertine Maria Babette von Schorlemmer (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonius Hendrikus Siepe (66), Musselkanaal, Groningen, Neerlândia
• Bartholomeus Jozef Bijnens (84), Zutendaal BE
• Arendina, jkvr. Strick van Linschoten (84), Arnhem
• Anne Toonstra (78), Bergum (gem. Tietjerkstradeel)
• Agnes Margarette Wyman (79), Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Hendrikus Siepe (66)

• 1969 » Bobbie Brown, American model and actress
• 1969 » Malia Hosaka, American wrestler
• 1969 » Maria Whittaker, English model, actress, and singer
• 1969 » Per Mathisen, Norwegian bass player and composer
• 1971 » Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor
• 1972 » Ben Younger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player
• 1973 » Dida, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Priest Holmes, American football player
• 1973 » Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer and manager

• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
• 1983 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)

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.
• March 8 » The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
• May 19 » Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• August 15 » President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
• October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
• November 28 » Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
• November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.

The temperature on October 7, 1971 was between 0.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.