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• Albertus Gerardus (Mark) van der Velden, Eindhoven († 2011)
• Marco Smit, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Diana Jongman, Kraggenburg († 1999)
• Raymond van der Rijt, Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• levenloos geboren zoontje († 1971)
• Anna Gerda Marion Berghmans, Maastricht († 1971)
• Erwin van Dijk, Udenhout († 1998)
• Paul Evan van der Lee, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 1980)
• Hessel Haga, Burgwerd, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• André Gerard Henri Tönis, Oldenzaal († 1972)

• Anna Hedwig Julia Rignell (93), Täby, Stockholm
• Albert J Langland (49), Chicago,Illinois, United States
• Anthonia Johanna Renes (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Gijsbertus Franciscus Vestering (54), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cyriel Leon Vandecapelle (75), Izegem
• Andre Albert Vlerick (22), Gent, Gand, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aart Gijsbertus Gravendeel (68), Dordrecht,Zuid Holland,Netherlands
• Adolf Netze (84), Den Haag
• Bastiaan Govert Gast de (72), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Barbara Maria Francina van Hout (71)

• 1969 » Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 » Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer
• 1969 » Kelvin Mercer, American rapper, songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach
• 1970 » Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
• 1970 » Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1971 » Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach
• 1971 » Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
• 1972 » Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer

• 1966 » Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (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. Jolanda
8. Saskia
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.
• January 25 » Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 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.
• September 4 » Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
• October 1 » The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
• November 22 » In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
• November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

The temperature on August 17, 1971 was between 4.6 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.