About the day » Thursday December 16, 1971Calender converter

• Céline DUVAL, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France († 1971)
• Raymond Eugene Martinez, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Johannes Antonius Petrus Josephus van Bers († 2020)

• Barbara Engelina van Egmond (80), Bodegraven
• Constantinus Michielsen (80), Meerle, België
• Anton scheffel (90), alkmaar
• Anna Maria Beckers (80), Maastricht, Netherlands
• Aaltje Veenhoven (87)
• Aleida Johanna Rozendom (88), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Leijten (75), Prinsenbeek (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Adrianus or James Verhey (73), Edgerton, Pipestone, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Casper Hermanus van der Linden (68), Leiden
• Catharina Kunst (80), den Haag, prov. Zuid Holland

• 1969 » Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1969 » Dmitri Tymoczko, American composer and theorist
• 1969 » Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
• 1969 » Simon Grayson, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Valerie Chow, Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist
• 1971 » Michael McCary, American R&B singer
• 1971 » Seyhan Kurt, French-Turkish poet and sociologist
• 1972 » Charles Gipson, American baseball player
• 1972 » Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Travis Morrison, American singer-songwriter

• 1965 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player (b. 1899)
• 1969 » Soe Hok Gie, Indonesian activist and academic (b. 1942)
• 1970 » Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of Latin America (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1976 » Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Risto Jarva, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 1980 » Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890)

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. 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.
• 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.
• April 19 » Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
• July 26 » Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
• 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 22 » In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.

The temperature on December 16, 1971 was between 2.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.