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• Frederic schmitt, paris 20 († 1998)
• Willem Jan Nicolaas Nentjes († 1976)
• Dirkje Pieternella van Est, Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jolanda Ehren, Cuijk en Sint Agatha, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Lieve Bomans
• Willem Jan Nicolaas Nentjes, Leiden († 1976)

• Daniel Cornelis Bartholomeus Balk (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonie van Verseveld (73)
• Andrew Benjamin Chambers (87), Saint Catherine, Jamaica
• Bernardus Verbogt (63), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Christiaan Meulema (85)
• Caesar Revius (75), Den Haag
• Alida Knurr (81), Londen, United Kingdom
• Adrianus van Meer (73)
• Arend RUZIUS (81), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anita de Andrade Silva (78), Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

• 1967 » Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian lawyer and politician 4th President of the Maldives
• 1967 » Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling valet and model († 2007)
• 1967 » Patrick Ortlieb, Austrian skier
• 1968 » Dave Abbruzzese, American rock drummer and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Hill, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Hubert Davis, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 » Jodie Rogers, Australian diver
• 1970 » Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1970 » Matt Lindland, American mixed martial artist, wrestler, and politician
• 1970 » René Vilbre, Estonian director and screenwriter

• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

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. Esther
8. Karin
9. Ingrid
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
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.
• April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
• June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
• July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• November 15 » Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
• December 17 » Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.

The temperature on May 17, 1969 was between 7.5 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.