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• Yvan Nijs, Bilzen, België († 1996)
• Margriet van den Hoven, De Moer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• JOHN PEDERSEN, SANDVIKA († 1970)
• Heronimus Adrianus (Ronnie) Rijsterborgh, Vlaardingen († 1997)
• Geertje Brouwer, Lemmer gem. Lemsterland († 1970)

• Charles Eduard SEGERS (74), Zottegem,9620,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Hesterman (69), Amsterdam
• Clara Frederike Beelaerts van Blokland (79), 's Gravenhage
• Charles Gloyd Cowley (68), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
• Antonia Henrica Johanna Maria van der Pol (1)
• Bernardus Johannes Schopman (70), Borne
• Casper Driessen (74), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Geerts (69), Breda, Nederland
• Clara Frederike Beelaerts vBlokld (79), 's-Gravenhage
• Anne Jan Post (63)

• 1968 » Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player
• 1968 » Worku Bikila, Ethiopian runner
• 1969 » Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1970 » Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
• 1970 » Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
• 1971 » Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner
• 1974 » Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
• 1974 » Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast

• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
• 1973 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1975 » József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1980 » María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (b. 1910)

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 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.
• July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
• September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
• October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
• November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.

The temperature on May 6, 1970 was between 9.5 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.