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• Wilhelmina Pauline Catharina Broere, Alphen aan den Rijn
• Elizabeth Antoinetta Maria Veroude, Gilze en Rijen
• Carolina Jacomijntje van Toledo, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Erik Kennis, Enschede

• Adriana van de Ven (64), t' Ven,Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Everett Fox (69), Monongalia Cnty, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Angelo Bolsonaro (65), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anne Spaas (9), 's-Gravenwezel (B)
• Apolonia van der Ham (83)
• Albertina Catharina Goedert (90), Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Adrianus van Diemen (56), Noordwijkerhout
• Andrew Abraham Wright (81), Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Wesley Wood [M 01] (78), Blount County, Alabama
• Anna Allegonda Nefkens (90), Dordrecht

• 1967 » Graham Brady, English politician
• 1968 » Timothy Olyphant, American actor and producer
• 1969 » Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and soldier
• 1970 » Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
• 1970 » Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
• 1971 » Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
• 1971 » Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1972 » Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 » Christophe Dominici, French rugby player
• 1972 » Michael Diamond, Australian shooter

• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)

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

• 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 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
• January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
• October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
• November 26 » In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

The temperature on May 20, 1970 was between 5.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.