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• Peter BEKX, Opotiki (New Zealand) († 2008)
• Timothy Michael Mc Queary, Indio, CA, U.S.A († 1971)
• Peter Francis (Peter) BEKX, Opotiki (NZ) († 2008)
• richard LAGEWEG († 1997)
• manon houben, nijmegen
• Curtis James Hansen, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 2008)
• Dana Denice Dykstra
• Jan Cornelis Eelman, Oosterend († 1996)
• Ilse HURKMANS († 2008)
• Jan Cornelis Eelman, Oosterend (Texel, NH) († 1996)

• Cornelia Catharina van Lynschooten (79)
• Arie Gijsbert van Gent (72), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Bernardus Johannes Alphonsus Boekholt (52)
• Arnolda Anna VAN DEN HURK (77), Eindhoven (NL/NB)
• Adriana Pieternella van der Hoeven (53)
• Catharina Nijdam (82), Oldeboorn, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Alexandrine Theonie Jeanette Marie Mignot (85), Eindhoven,Gemeente Eindhoven,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Antje Sikkink (81), Amsterdam
• Alfons Joseph Peusens (53), Geleen
• Catharina Willems Nijdam (82)

• 1969 » Brad Anderson, American wrestler
• 1969 » Clinton McKinnon, American saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1969 » Leavander Johnson, American boxer († 2005)
• 1969 » Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Nick Love, English director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Ryuji Kato, Japanese soccer player
• 1969 » Taro Goto, Japanese soccer player
• 1970 » Adam Haslett, American author and academic
• 1970 » Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican-American actor

• 1965 » John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Fritz Gause, German historian and author (b. 1893)

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.
• March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
• August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
• September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• 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.
• November 12 » The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
• November 17 » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

The temperature on December 24, 1970 was between -6.9 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.