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• Eugène Valstar, Amsterdam († 1970)
• Heidi van Twillert († 2003)
• Margreet Gerrits († 2000)
• NN van Asselt, Ermelo († 1969)

• Cornelis Vermeij (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Vermeij (85), Amsterdam
• Dick KROEF (66), Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Josephina Hermsen (96), Schöninghsdorf, Twist
• Adella Magdalena Kueter (78), Minnehaha,South Dakota
• Antonius Johannes van der Avort (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmus (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Haasnoot (35), Op zee
• Adriana Wolfert (95), Axel
• Angelinus Rijkers (75), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1967 » Tim McGraw, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1968 » D'arcy Wretzky, American bass player and singer
• 1968 » Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer and manager
• 1969 » Billy Owens, American basketball player
• 1969 » Mary Lou McDonald, Irish politician
• 1969 » Wes Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 » Ethan Albright, American football player
• 1971 » Kim Grant, South African tennis player
• 1971 » Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer

• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Yi Un, Korean prince (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (b. 1939)
• 1976 » T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Mark
9. Edwin
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 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
• January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
• April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
• April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
• October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.

The temperature on May 1, 1969 was between 5.5 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.