About the day » Thursday September 17, 1970Calender converter

• Edwin Buter, 't Zand († 1970)
• Robbie Nuijen, Mossman, Queensland, Australia († 1984)
• Stephen Jonathan Curtis, Kettering, Northamptonshire († 2016)
• Vincent Vance van der Laan, Windsor (Ont-Canada)
• Robbie Nuijen († 1984)
• peter antoon (bart) hesen, helden
• Jeroen Pieter (Jeroen) Jongepier († 2017)
• Raymond Ribbers, Beltrum,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)

• Arnoldus Marinus van de Locht (64)
• Claude Harold KNIGHT (80)
• Arie Johannes Baauw (47)
• Anthonie Kunst (79), Assen
• Allert Jan Dik (80)
• Annechien Boersma (70), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert L Boerman (78), Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria van den Ancker (59), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aleida Bruggenwert (78), Deurne, Deurne en Liessel
• Arie Valstar (63), Monster (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1968 » Cheryl Strayed, American author
• 1968 » Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1969 » Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Paul Varelans, American MMA fighter and wrestler
• 1971 » Andy Edwards, English footballer
• 1971 » Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Mike Catt, South African-English rugby player and coach
• 1971 » Nate Berkus, American interior designer and television host

• 1961 » Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1965 » Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor and actor (b. 1930)
• 1971 » Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (b. 1937)
• 1972 » Akim Tamiroff, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Nicola Moscona, Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)
• 1983 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)

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.
• March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
• April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
• July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
• October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
• October 17 » FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
• November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

The temperature on September 17, 1970 was between 10.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.