About the day » Wednesday August 25, 1971Calender converter

• Steven James Hackler, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia († 1977)
• Rob Rieuwert Geerts Neef († 1992)
• Nancy Toelen, Leuven († 2021)
• Rolf de BORST, Den Haag († 2005)
• Gijsberta C. Boon, Zoelmond (Beusichem) (Buren) (GL) († 1971)
• Leon van der Post, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• André CLINCKEMAILLIE (49), Menen,8930,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie
• Bayly Burger Cilliers (63), Kaapstad,,Western Cape,South Africa
• Albertus Hogewoning (24), Katwijk
• Bayly Burger Celliers (63), Kaapstad
• Bernard Jan Gratama (77), Sausalito (USA)
• Bernardus Josephus Maria Kruijssen (77), Tilburg
• Agatha Wijnberg (94), Amsterdam
• Albert Aants Kingma (68), Birdaard, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Julius Godfried Gunther Mohr (50), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Luijendijk (81), 's gravenhage (zuid holland)

• 1969 » Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor and television personality
• 1969 » Catriona Matthew, Scottish golfer
• 1969 » Olga Konkova, Norwegian-Russian pianist and composer
• 1970 » Adrian Lam, Papua New Guinean-Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1970 » Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
• 1970 » Debbie Graham, American tennis player
• 1970 » Doug Glanville, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Jo Dee Messina, American singer-songwriter
• 1970 » Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Jason Death, Australian rugby league player

• 1967 » George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Oscar Cabalén, Argentine race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Robert Cosgrove, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)
• 1973 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
• 1976 » Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Marco
5. Peter
6. Marcel
7. Jeroen
8. Mark
9. Richard
10. Patrick
11. Michael
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 8 » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
• February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
• July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
• 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.
• November 28 » Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.

The temperature on August 25, 1971 was between 8.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.