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• Leonard Henny VONCK, Oldehove Groningen Netherlands († 2006)
• Palmiro Léone Luca
• Aron Chaim Krant, Bussum, Nederland († 2007)
• N.N. Doekeles Dijkstra, Hemelum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland († 1970)
• Petronella Cornelia Maria de Wolf, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Petrus Johannes Marinus Driessen, Terheijden († 1970)
• Richard Landon "Ricky" Helsel († 1996)
• Aron Chaïm Krant, Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Petrus Johannes Marinus Driessen, Terheijden,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1970)
• Brandi Tara Bartholow, United States († 2014)

• Cornelia van den Enden (86), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aaffien Nienhuis (65), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Willem Hendrik BUSCHENHENKE (71), Zwolle
• Barbara Maria Fokker (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Pieternella Mulder (81), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Henricus Walstra (93), Amsterdam
• Dirk Scholten (69), Middenmeer, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augustijnus Grondelaers (48), Leuven, Provincie Brabant, België
• Arien Meijles (55)
• Anna Pieternella Mulder (81), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Christian Tetzlaff, German violinist
• 1966 » Phil Tufnell, English cricketer and radio host
• 1967 » Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 » Marcel Albers, Dutch race car driver († 1992)
• 1968 » Carnie Wilson, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 » Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, 4th President of Croatia
• 1969 » Jack Mackenroth, American swimmer, model, and fashion designer
• 1970 » Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 » Uma Thurman, American actress
• 1972 » Dustin McDaniel, American lawyer and politician, 55th Arkansas Attorney General

• 1964 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)
• 1966 » William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1967 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)

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

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Linda
8. Ingrid
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Nathalie
16. Elisabeth

• 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 13.0 million citizens.
• January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• May 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
• May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.

The temperature on April 29, 1970 was between 2.9 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.