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• Chet Stofferan († 2024)
• Marcel Gerardus Adrianus van der Made, Breda
• Angela de Lange, Koudekerk ad Ryn († 1971)
• Douglas Wayne Stage, Michigan, United States († 2023)
• Jocélio Lohn, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1997)

• Anna Cnossen (56)
• Alonzo Coon (81)
• Adriana Verstraate (70), Reimerswaal
• Aaftje van het Hof (91)
• Antonius Kuijpers (84), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoon Kruijer (61), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Aldegondis Bortels (80), Hasselt, België
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus van Rooij (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Verstraate (70), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Arend Jan Boss (74), Ermelo,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1968 » Graham Harman, American philosopher and academic
• 1968 » Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
• 1970 » Doug Christie, American basketball player
• 1970 » Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor
• 1970 » Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer & all time top scorer for Chinese national team
• 1971 » Dan Chiasson, American poet and critic
• 1971 » Jason Lee, English footballer and manager
• 1972 » Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
• 1973 » Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
• 1973 » Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner

• 1965 » Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
• 1968 » Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1970 » Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
• 1976 » Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1976 » Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
• 1977 » James Jones, American novelist (b. 1921)
• 1978 » Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)

• 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.
• February 9 » Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
• September 3 » Qatar becomes an independent state.
• November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
• November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
• December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.

The temperature on May 9, 1971 was between 5.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.