About the day » Saturday February 6, 1971Calender converter

• William Laurrence Ellis, Belper, Derbyshire († 2016)
• Shoan Brooks, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Matt Clifton Peery († 2017)
• Mark Lafeber, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1972)
• Ramon Cornelis Beense, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Pascal Daniel Maria Courbois, Venlo, Ned
• Denise J. van der Weit

• Abeltje van Egmond (79)
• Andries Andries Turksema (77), Haulerwijk
• Anna Catharina Oorthuis (69)
• Bastiaan de Waal (59), Zeist
• Anna Maria (Marie) Dun, van (82), Kaatsheuvel
• Benjamin Lawrence Miley (57), Loveland, Larimer, Colorado, United States
• Aaltje Zijlstra (52)
• Aloysia Martina van Otterdijk (82)
• Auguste Hubert Eugénie Vanbrabant (54), Sint-Truiden, België
• Annichje (Annigje) Kroezen (87), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1969 » Bob Wickman, American baseball player
• 1969 » David Hayter, American actor and screenwriter
• 1969 » Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1969 » Tim Sherwood, English international footballer midfielder and manager
• 1970 » Per Frandsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1970 » Tim Herron, American golfer
• 1971 » Brad Hogg, Australian cricketer
• 1971 » Carlos Rogers, American basketball player
• 1972 » David Binn, American football player
• 1972 » Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer

• 1958 » victims of the Munich air disaster
• 1963 » Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
• 1964 » Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
• 1967 » Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
• 1972 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1976 » Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Ben Nicholson, British painter (b. 1894)
• 1985 » James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss soldier and author (b. 1906)

• 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.
• May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
• July 26 » Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
• November 14 » Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
• December 7 » The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.

The temperature on February 6, 1971 was between 3.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.