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• Diana Haring
• José Reitz, Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1971)
• Stephanie Marelle, Boulogne Billancourt

• Aleida Elisabeth Belterman (75), Silvolde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Diena Boer (86), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelia Gastel van (79), Breda
• Andrizetta Johanna van der Heijdt (85), Rotterdam
• Constantia Johanna Paula Kleene (39), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Gastel (79), Etten-Leur
• Aleida Elisabeth Belterman (75), Silvolde, Nederland
• Arend van Duijn (90)
• Antje Kleinlugtebeld (80), Ommen
• Alida Johanna Arends (69), Amsterdam

• 1967 » Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor
• 1968 » Scott Gourley, Australian rugby player
• 1969 » Elizabeth Gilbert, American author
• 1969 » The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1971 » Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1974 » Alan Morrison, British poet
• 1975 » Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 » Torii Hunter, American baseball player

• 1966 » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)

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.
• February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
• March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• May 19 » Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
• July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
• November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.

The temperature on July 18, 1971 was between 4.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.