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• Lucia VELDPAPE, Oude Pekela Groningen Netherlands († 2000)
• Bettie Brem, Hattem
• Francisca Maria Elisabeth Blommesteijn, Amsterdam
• Carlos Eduardo Sens, Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1991)
• Levensloos ter Horst, Stad Delden († 1971)
• Simone van Rooij, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Sigrid Martine Doeleman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Kenneth Alan Hermer, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Annemieke Olde Scheper († 1998)
• Eric Jason Thrall

• Arnoldus Antonius van Orsouw (56), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Edward Helmlinger (96), Columbia, Warren Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Raymond Wilson (57), Fox, Stone County, Arkansas
• (16b)Pieter Willem van Bezouwen (45), Rotterdam
• Breunisje Staal (88), Ermelo
• Alice (Wieske) DE BIE (77), Kruibeke
• Bessie E Geerdes (74), Wellsburg, Grundy County, Iowa
• Arend Pannekoek Loois (86), Rotterdam
• Blanche Albertina Vancompernol (73), Kortrijk
• Catharina Delzaine (96), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1969 » Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
• 1969 » Kaisa Roose, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1970 » Chris Huffins, American decathlete and coach
• 1971 » Finidi George, Nigerian footballer
• 1971 » Jason Sehorn, American football player
• 1971 » Josia Thugwane, South African runner
• 1971 » Karl Turner, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 » Philippe Carbonneau, French rugby player
• 1972 » Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer († 2009)
• 1972 » Lou Romano, American animator and voice actor

• 1962 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1962 » Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
• 1967 » Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)

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.
• January 31 » The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
• February 8 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
• February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
• March 18 » Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
• April 1 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
• May 20 » In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.

The temperature on April 15, 1971 was between 2.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.