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• Scot Southland
• Robin Eduard Imke Doomen, Leiden
• Wilhelmus Adrianus Cornelius Kaandorp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Mirjam Olivia de Bres († 1999)
• Marijn Lucas Anthonius Johan Baaij, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Annigje Knol (77), Emmen
• Bernard Paulus de Planque (50), Hengelo (Overijssel)
• Anna Hendrika Meijer (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arij van der Hoek (74), Baarn, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Tuinman (83), Grafhorst, Nederland
• Aart van Sprakelaar (65), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cristina Anna de Vries (52), Berkel &, Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Harrison Long (81), Wrights, Greene, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia van den Boom (62), gorinchem
• Cornelia Gerritje Schoonhoven (47)

• 1969 » Archie Kao, American actor and producer
• 1969 » Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 » Natascha McElhone, English-Irish actress
• 1969 » Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1970 » Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Michaela Watkins, American actor and comedian
• 1972 » Marcus Jensen, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Miranda Hart, English actress
• 1973 » Falk Balzer, German hurdler

• 1963 » Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
• 1964 » William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1970 » Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
• 1971 » Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
• 1971 » Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 1974 » Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (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. 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 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
• April 19 » Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
• August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
• 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.
• September 28 » The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.

The temperature on December 14, 1971 was between 2.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.