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• Marco Schuit, Ermelo († 1973)
• Marco Schuit, ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1973)

• (53), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Andries Nanne OSINGA (65)
• Charlotte Arabella "Lottie" Beeks **** (80), San Jose, Santa Clara, California, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Gijsbertus Reinierus Smeier (69), Dieren gem Rheden Gld
• Christina Johanna Kreisch De Wet (74), Bredasdorp, Cape Province, South Africa
• Anna Klasina Johanna Schimmelpenning (70), Haarlem
• Andries Nanne Jacobs Osinga (65)
• Cor van den Oetelaar (50), Boxtel, Netherlands
• Daniël van Alphen (84), Purmerent
• Abel Volders (80), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa

• 1968 » Ri Pun-hui, North Korean table tennis player
• 1969 » Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver and journalist
• 1969 » Jennifer Ehle, American actress
• 1970 » Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television host
• 1970 » Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer and manager
• 1970 » Glen Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
• 1971 » Besnik Hasi, Kosovo Albanian football manager and former player
• 1972 » Jude Law, English actor
• 1973 » Theo Epstein, American businessman
• 1974 » Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and writer

• 1959 » Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)
• 1960 » Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
• 1967 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (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.
• April 19 » Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• August 22 » J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• September 21 » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
• November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
• November 23 » Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

The temperature on December 29, 1971 was between -2.3 and 1.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.