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• Olaf Jurgen Frank Bakker († 1971)
• Jan Peetoom, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• marian hermans, helden-beringe
• Petra Ilona Ackermans, Amsterdam (noord-holland)
• Johanna Hendrina (Annette) Stam, Hendrik Ido Ambacht
• Gino Raymackers
• Albert Kiel, Enschede († 1971)

• Almaide Josephine DUCHENE (90), Bourgoin-Jallieu,38300,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Catharina Cornelia Boudewijns (71), Breda
• Berta op 't Ende (97)
• Albert Bostoen (57), Moeskroen
• Antje de Bode (75), Gouda
• Djoeke Wouda (85), Wirdum Friesland Nederland
• Aaltje Bijl (62), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernard Bruil (51), Doetinchem, Nederland
• Anna Maria van van Wegberg (85), Sittard
• Arie Quartel (62), Apeldoorn (Gld), Nederland

• 1970 » Aisha Tyler, American actress, television host, and author
• 1970 » Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist († 1993)
• 1970 » Darren Gough, English cricketer
• 1970 » Mike Compton, American football player and coach
• 1971 » Anna Netrebko, Russian-Austrian soprano and actress
• 1971 » Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress
• 1971 » Lance Armstrong, American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation
• 1972 » Adam Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
• 1972 » David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer († 2003)

• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880)
• 1967 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
• 1975 » Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (b. 1907)
• 1977 » Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (b. 1890)

• 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 12 » The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
• March 8 » The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
• 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.
• September 4 » Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
• September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
• December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

The temperature on September 18, 1971 was between 4.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.