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• mathijs (mark) van der leeden, helden-panningen
• nancy engelen, helden-grashoek
• Yvonne Marianne Laméris, Delft

• * Lambertus Johannes Doomernik (71)
• Anne Cornelis Corneliszn. Hoekstra (74), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Ieperen (84), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Breunis Spijkhoven (90)
• Antonia Maria Doorakkers (56), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis van 't Hoff (63), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Nicolaas van 't Hoff (63), Alkmaar
• Albert Mooi (56), Appingedam,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Broeders (52), Tilburg, NB, Nederland
• Betje van Heerde (63), Kampen, Overijssel, Nl

• 1968 » Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
• 1969 » Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
• 1970 » Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
• 1970 » Karen Bradley, British politician
• 1970 » Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer
• 1970 » Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
• 1971 » Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
• 1972 » Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player

• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

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. Saskia
8. Jolanda
9. Karin
10. Ingrid
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 7 » President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
• May 27 » Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
• September 28 » The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• November 6 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
• November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
• November 28 » Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.

The temperature on March 12, 1971 was between -0.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.