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• Renald Robert Edelbroek, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annechien Elizabeth van der Heide
• Jolanda Koemans († 2016)
• Serva Christine Foppes, Langedijk († 1973)
• Viviane BIELEN, St. Jansziekenhuis, Weg naar AS,Genk,Limburg,Belgie († 1971)
• Suzette Russell Vernone Heflin, Big Spring, Howard, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Arie Dirk van Doorn († 1970)
• Herman Tobias Antonius Maria de Groot, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Harm Jan Haayer, Zuidlaren,Gemeente Tynaarlo,Drenthe,Nederland († 1993)
• Gabriele Hilbig († 1970)

• Cornelis Frederikus de Joode (83), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alberdina Theodora Cornelia van Amstel (73), Heemstede
• Cornelis Zutphen (71), het ziekenhuis 'Parkzicht' in den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Verkuil (76), Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis.Hubertus Maria van Gils (36)
• anna maria van den boogaart (75), horst
• Arnold A. van Meer (76), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bruin SIER (45), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia Carlee (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes de Hilster (81), 's-Gravenhage

• 1966 » Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 » Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
• 1968 » Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author
• 1969 » Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor († 2019)
• 1970 » Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1972 » Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 » Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast

• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

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. Nathalie
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.
• April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
• October 10 » Fiji becomes independent.
• November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

The temperature on May 22, 1970 was between 3.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.