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• Johannes Marie Baggen, Sittard († 2008)
• Marco Abelskamp († 1998)
• Sabrina Demeulenaere, Kortrijk († 2001)

• * Elisabeth van Twist (68), Amsterdam
• Adriano van Helden (57), brazillië
• Adriaan Balemans (83), Essen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelisje van Westen (88), Amsterdam
• Catharina Johanna van de Logt (69), Cuijk en St. Agatha, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Boom (74), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Beertje Lokhorst (82), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Walterus Wesseling (62), Sassenheim
• Catharina Johanna Spijkers (72), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Arthur Jay Maxam (98), Clearwater, Wright, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1967 » Deion Sanders, American football and baseball player
• 1968 » Eric Bana, Australian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Gillian Anderson, American-British actress, activist and writer
• 1968 » McG, American director and producer
• 1968 » Sam Fogarino, American drummer
• 1969 » Troy Percival, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 » Chris Cuomo, American lawyer and journalist
• 1970 » Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor and director

• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)

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 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• 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.
• April 22 » The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
• November 10 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
• November 17 » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

The temperature on August 9, 1970 was between 12.3 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.