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• Neeltje Cornelia van den Oever, Katwijk († 2011)
• Sandy DELCHEVALERIE, Séoul (Corée du Sud),, France († 2022)
• Frank Pieter Ivo Schiks, Oss († 2018)
• Albert Walet, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 2013)
• Patricia Romijn
• Kristin Lynne Vegter
• Eise Osinga († 2012)

• Bernardus Martinus van Hagen (78), Bladel, Gemeente Bladel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Hoek (81), Oss
• Adriana Hendrika van Maren (75), Schiedam
• Benjamin Arvid Johnson (72), Douglas County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Antonius Johannes van Eenbergen (82), Veghel
• Antonius Hendrikus Sickmann (73), Amsterdam
• Antonius Daniels (79), Eindhoven
• Bertus van Leijen (58), Opheusden
• Bouke Bijl (64), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Bernardus Johannes Rikkerink (84), Hengelo

• 1967 » Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1994)
• 1967 » Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier
• 1969 » Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete
• 1969 » Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, and activist
• 1971 » Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
• 1971 » Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player († 2017)
• 1972 » Neil Primrose, Scottish drummer
• 1974 » Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager

• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)

• 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 1 » Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• May 30 » Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
• August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
• August 18 » Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
• October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
• 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.

The temperature on February 20, 1971 was between -3.6 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.