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• John Glenn TenHaken, Sheboygan, WI (US) († 1971)
• Sandro Roberto Silveira da Silva, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil († 1993)

• Celina Maria Bruynooghe (85), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Bart van GAMEREN (62), waardenburg
• Aris van Dam (96), Stolwijk, Nederland
• Aldegonda Hubertina Bartholomé (71), Ubachsberg, Voerendaal
• ten Dam, Johannes Willibrordus Hendrikus (64), Nijmegen
• Antje Hanses Hoekstra (75)
• Catharina,Johanna de Ruijter (66), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Astrid Pauline Følling (76)
• Albertus van Wel (85), Koog aan de Zaan
• Addie Mae Todd (84), Bryan, Brazos Co, TX

• 1968 » Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
• 1968 » Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
• 1970 » Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1970 » Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
• 1970 » Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor and producer
• 1971 » Stefan Klos, German footballer
• 1972 » Emily Robison, American singer-songwriter and banjo player
• 1972 » Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian and television host
• 1972 » Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
• 1973 » Damian Jackson, American baseball player

• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
• 1978 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)
• 1979 » John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)

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 9 » Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
• April 5 » In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
• May 30 » Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
• August 15 » President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
• October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
• December 1 » Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

The temperature on August 16, 1971 was between 7.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.