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• Jan Dam († 2015)
• Geeske Seinen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Esther van Schepen
• Ferry van Smirren, Rotterdam
• Marco Dinand Salomons († 1983)

• Aaltje Haalstra (85)
• Albertus Roseboom (68), Wageningen
• Anna Catharina Maria van de Goorbergh (79), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Maria van de Goorbergh (79), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelius van Troost (78), SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Hoek (84)
• Arendje Stehouwer (68), Rotterdam
• Cornelis de Bas (81), Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Catharina Baerents (48), Wassenaar
• Albert Geertjes (85)

• 1968 » Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author
• 1969 » Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor († 2019)
• 1970 » Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1972 » Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 » Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1975 » Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Marco
5. Peter
6. Marcel
7. Jeroen
8. Mark
9. Richard
10. Patrick
11. Michael
12. Edwin
13. Pieter
14. Cornelis
15. David
16. Johan

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.
• February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
• March 8 » The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
• September 21 » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
• September 28 » The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• November 23 » Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• December 8 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

The temperature on May 22, 1971 was between 8.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. 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 east.