About the day » Sunday February 21, 1971Calender converter

• Betty Conijn, Edam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Viktor Inje, Vulcanesti, MD († 2023)
• Wensis Sarkol, Milheeze, Netherlands († 2012)
• H.L. Francissen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Anja Vollmüller, Utrecht
• Dirk Jan Jozef Roelofs, Turnhout († 1999)
• Esther Hendrikje de Wit, Hilversum
• Dirk Jan Jozef Roelofs, Turnhout, Antwerpen, België († 1999)

• Antoon Caen (58), Gits
• Antheunis Dees (84), Terneuzen, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anne Marie Henriette Elisabeth VAN EYLL (61), Brussels Brussels Belgium
• Abraham Morpurgo (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antheunis (Anthonius) Dees (84), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan David Claase (53), Rotterdam
• Anna Cornelia van Gijzel (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van LÖBEN SELS (89), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Willem van Lith (86), Alem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Krikken (79), Erie County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1969 » Aunjanue Ellis, American actress and producer
• 1969 » Cathy Richardson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1969 » Petra Kronberger, Austrian skier
• 1969 » Tony Meola, American soccer player and manager
• 1970 » Eric Wilson, American bass player and drummer
• 1970 » Michael Slater, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Pierre Fulke, Swedish golfer
• 1972 » Seo Taiji, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1973 » Heri Joensen, Faroese singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)

• 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 25 » Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
• March 18 » Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
• July 5 » The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
• September 13 » State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
• November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.

The temperature on February 21, 1971 was between 4.0 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.