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• Jaret Lee Negan, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• Erik P.A.M. Bakkum, Limmen († 1988)
• Sandra Johanna Martina van de Boog, Katwijk aan de Rijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2009)
• jaret negan, iowa (usa) († 1970)
• Almarie Herne, Ficksburg, Free State, Zuid-Afrika
• Els De Coninck († 1974)
• Agnes Roberta Anita Aras, Lier, Antwerpen, België († 1970)

• Charles Elmore Mitchell (57), Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, United States of America
• Antonia Johanna Jansen (64), Leiden
• Cornelia Micheels (85), Naarden
• Catharina Maria Cronje (70), Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa
• Camiel Engelbert HADERMANN (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Micheels (85), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Post (75), Den Helder
• Dick Siebrands (84), George, Lyon County, Iowa
• Amedee Henry Robillard (96), Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Hendriks van der Heide (63), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• 1967 » Philip Treacy, Irish milliner, hat designer
• 1968 » Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
• 1968 » Steve Sedgley, English footballer and manager
• 1969 » Dominic Mohan, English journalist
• 1969 » John Baird, Canadian politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1969 » Siri Lindley, American triathlete and coach
• 1970 » Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese illustrator
• 1971 » Matt Stone, American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer
• 1971 » Zaher Andary, Lebanese footballer

• 1956 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Jeroen
8. Marcel
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. Linda
8. Ingrid
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.
• April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
• April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
• September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
• October 5 » The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
• November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
• November 26 » In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

The temperature on May 26, 1970 was between 8.1 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.