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• Jörg Friesenborg († 1989)
• Marcos Spada e Souza, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1971)

• Adrianus Jacobus Jacobs (67), Tilburg
• August Van der Beeken (79), Boom
• Alfons Lasseel (66)
• Aalbert Hertog (97), Moerkapelle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje Johans Oosterhof (8), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• cornelia maria GROENEVELD (71), zwijndrecht
• Cornelia Smit (78), Sliedrecht
• Cornelis Johannes van Rijsewijk (68), Katwijk
• Alidoor Vuylsteke (84)
• Albert Hooghuis (73), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland

• 1969 » Kim Fields, American actress
• 1969 » Suzanne Clément, Canadian actress
• 1970 » David A. R. White, American actor and producer
• 1970 » Jim Furyk, American golfer
• 1970 » Mark Foster, English swimmer
• 1970 » Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
• 1970 » Samantha Mathis, American actress
• 1971 » Doug Basham, American wrestler
• 1971 » Jamie Luner, American actress
• 1972 » Christian Campbell, Canadian-American actor, writer and photographer

• 1963 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)
• 1966 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (b. 1896)
• 1967 » John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1973 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
• 1974 » Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)

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. 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 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
• March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• May 31 » In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
• 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.
• August 14 » Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
• December 20 » The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.

The temperature on May 12, 1971 was between 10.2 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.