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• Pieter Berkers († 1971)
• Janneke Witteveen
• Jamie Lee WHITEHOUSE († 1998)

• Dorine Betsy Telles (37), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Dorothea Anna Catharina Peeters (66), Deurne
• Cornelia van Hardeveld (68), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Edward J van Wyhe (60), Hull, Sioux County, Iowa
• Anna Maria Rijlaarsdam (82), Zevenhoven
• Catharina Regina Lievens (72), Geel, België
• Beerdje van den Brink (55)
• Catharina van Haeringen (82)
• Anthonie van Zante (87), Marion County, Iowa
• Cornelis Dirksz Zaal (80), Zwammerdam

• 1957 » Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore politician; 5th Senior Minister of Singapore
• 1958 » Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach; four-time NBA Finals champion
• 1962 » Birgit Fischer, German kayaker; winner of eight Olympic gold medals
• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open

• 1963 » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
• 1964 » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
• 1970 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1980 » Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)

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. Jolanda
8. Saskia
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.
• February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
• February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
• February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
• November 10 » In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
• November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
• December 16 » Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.

The temperature on February 25, 1971 was between 2.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.