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• Erik Sietse Ruijg, Terschelling († 2000)
• ellen ottenheijm, helden-panningen
• Michael Michiel Gerardus Johannes Reinders, Dordrecht

• Albert Raphaël Henri Paul Canter Visscher (66), Hilversum
• Albertus Kuiper (75)
• Alida Laurier (71), Leiden
• Alberta Possemis (73), Waalwijk
• Alida Klasina van de Burg (68), Amsterdam
• Anthonie Kiesewetter (81)
• August Hippoliet De Saedeleer (72), Aalst
• Aartje Karssen (50), Harderwijk
• Baukje Lieuwes Poelstra (87), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnès Arnoudt (69), Mol, Antwerpen, België

• 1968 » Giorgos Theofanous, Greek-Cypriot composer and producer
• 1968 » Jimmy Adams, Jamaican cricketer and coach
• 1968 » Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
• 1968 » Mardi Lunn, Australian golfer
• 1970 » Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress, and radio host
• 1971 » Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author and critic
• 1971 » Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Jay Powell, American baseball player
• 1972 » Rawson Stovall, American video game producer and author

• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (b. 1909)

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 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
• January 5 » The 7.1 M_w  Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
• April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
• June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• July 3 » Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
• September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.

The temperature on January 9, 1970 was between -1.0 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.