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• Patricia Elisabeth Theodora Kloppenburg, Babberich
• Alessander Enor Nürnberg, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1993)
• Anne Hobers, Nieuw-Amsterdam († 2014)

• Andrew Dee Ivy (73), Jewett, Leon, Texas, United States
• Amelie Wilhelmine Louise Marie Herckenrath (89), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anthonia Elisabeth van Lynden (86), Gilze-Rijen, N.B
• Romkje Spijksma (59), Workum
• Adrianus Lute (78), Castricum
• Auke Dirks Postma (83)
• Antonia Elisabeth van Lynden (86), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje van der Veen (85)
• Anna Maria de MUYNCK (69), Ertvelde, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgie
• Cornelia Maria Meeder (80), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1968 » Helena Christensen, Danish model and actress
• 1968 » Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
• 1969 » Frederick Onyancha, Kenyan runner
• 1969 » Nicolas Godin, French musician
• 1969 » Noel Goldthorpe, Australian rugby league player
• 1970 » Emmanuel Amunike, Nigerian footballer and manager
• 1970 » Rodney Dent, American basketball player
• 1971 » Dido, English singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
• 1972 » Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1961 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)

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.
• March 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
• March 31 » Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
• April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
• September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
• September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
• November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

The temperature on December 25, 1970 was between -4.7 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.