About the day » Friday December 18, 1970Calender converter

• Willem Lodewijk Agter, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 1992)
• Bernd Mobach, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Willem Lodewijk Agter, Gemeente Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Ronald ter Heerd, Heeswijk Dinther († 2020)
• Paul Cameron Hassan, Geelong, Australië († 1986)
• Yolanda Bianca Zandijk, Rotterdam

• Arend (Harry) Kattouw (56), Belmore, New South Wales, Australië
• Augustinus Cornelius Verraes (65), Tilburg
• Alida Maria Francisca Hoffschlag (66), Utrecht
• Adrianus Cornelis Bruijns (71), Amsterdam
• Catharina Judith van Heek (77), Enschede
• Arendje Bouman (73), Utrecht
• Augustinus (Guus) Moonen (57), Senatorium Hornerheide
• (73), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Vrooman (66)
• Charlotte Louise Jacqueline Petronella Lapra (89), 's-Gravenhage

• 1969 » Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
• 1969 » Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager († 2019)
• 1969 » Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
• 1970 » DMX, American rapper and actor
• 1970 » Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1970 » Jonathan Yeo, English painter
• 1970 » Lucious Harris, American basketball player
• 1970 » Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
• 1970 » Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
• 1971 » Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist

• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)

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. Ingrid
8. Linda
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.
• March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
• August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
• September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
• September 12 » Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
• October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.

The temperature on December 18, 1970 was between 3.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.