About the day » Wednesday August 18, 1971Calender converter

• Dennis Groen († 1994)
• Nathen Newton ROWLINGS, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1971)
• Grietina Mink, Emmen († 2011)
• Dennis Groen († 1994)
• Grietiena Mink, Emmen († 2011)

• Ascanio Colonna (88), Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
• Alida Mur (72), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Steffen (93), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• August Emiel Riské (73), Sint-Niklaas, België
• Aaltje Brons (95)
• Aukje Grasmeijer (49), Nietap, Nederland
• Bastiaan Kooijman (73), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Luchies (73), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berendina Veurman (73)
• Aaltje Johannesdr. Lucardie, Maassluis, Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1966 » Gustavo Charif, Argentinian director and producer
• 1967 » Brian Michael Bendis, American author and illustrator
• 1967 » Daler Mehndi, Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1969 » Edward Norton, American actor
• 1969 » Mark Kuhlmann, German rugby player and coach
• 1970 » Jason Furman, American economist and politician
• 1970 » Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor and producer
• 1971 » Richard David James, English musician composer
• 1971 » Patrik Andersson, Swedish footballer
• 1974 » Nicole Krauss, American novelist and critic

• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)

• 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 1 » Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• February 11 » Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
• June 30 » The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
• 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.
• August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
• November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.

The temperature on August 18, 1971 was between 10.3 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.