About the day » Friday February 7, 1969Calender converter

• Elizabeth Anne WOODBERRY, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia († 1994)
• Rob Jan Adriaan Prevo, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2019)
• Siebrigje Jetske Vroegh, ZUTPHEN, GD, NL († 1988)
• Karen Irene Schuurs, Hoog Keppel
• Edwin Wijnker († 1972)
• Gert Hekhuis, Hengelo (O) († 1969)

• Ate Wieling (66), Delfstrahuizen
• Adriana Maria Heijmans (85), Eindhoven
• Andreas Johannes Beijnders (71), Boskoop
• Coleman Hugh Whisenant (57), Harris County, Texas
• Cordelia Louisa Thomasson Bedford (82), Runnels County, Texas
• Aloijsius Antheunis (64), Heikant,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelis Spierdijk (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Augustina Adriana ERKELENS (65), Breda (NL/NB)
• Albert MULLENDER (74), Oostdongeradeel Friesland Netherlands
• Adrianus Antonius van Grinsven (66), Boxtel

• 1964 » Ashok Banker, Indian journalist, author, and screenwriter
• 1965 » Chris Rock, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Kristin Otto, German swimmer
• 1968 » Mark Tewksbury, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
• 1968 » Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-Slovak ice hockey player and manager
• 1968 » Sully Erna, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician
• 1971 » Anita Tsoy, Russian singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Robyn Lively, American actress
• 1973 » Juwan Howard, American basketball player and coach

• 1959 » Daniel François Malan, South African minister and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Guitar Slim, American singer and guitarist (b. 1926)
• 1959 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1960 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1972 » Walter Lang, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (b. 1923)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Karin
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
• March 17 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
• April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
• April 22 » British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
• August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• August 13 » The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.

The temperature on February 7, 1969 was between -1.7 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.