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• Marijtje Hakvoort († 2024)
• Chantal Buchmeyer
• Johan Eijse Mantel, Wormer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Esther van SCHIJNDEL, Heeswijik Dinter († 1969)
• Jitske de Boer, ,, Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 2021)
• boy-1 Herman, Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pennsylvania († 1969)
• Erwin van den Boom, Valkenswaard
• Alexander van Middelkoop († 2001)
• Sylvia Kulk, Den Haag {ZH} ('s Gravenhage) († 1969)

• Anna Maria Barbara Zelissen (73), Nuth
• Brunehilde Carvalho da Fontoura (72), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Bernardina Maria (Dien) van Oort (62), Tilburg
• Arnold Busman (81), Amsterdam
• Christina Kok (85), Kockengen
• Adlai Joel Muilenburg (49), La Jolla, San Diego County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Annes Roorda (89), Pella, Marion County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Laan (87), Blokker, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Maria van Oort (62), Tilburg
• Adrian T. van der Linde (69), Kalamazoo MI

• 1966 » Garry Conille, Haitian physician and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1967 » Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
• 1967 » Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 » Tim Commerford, American bass player
• 1969 » Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer and producer
• 1970 » Mark Harper, English accountant and politician, Minister of State for Immigration
• 1970 » Scott Mahon, Australian rugby league player
• 1971 » Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1971 » Hélène Segara, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 » Max Martin, Swedish-American record producer and songwriter

• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others
• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Esther
8. Karin
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• 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 12.8 million citizens.
• January 14 » USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USSEnterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
• January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• January 20 » Richard Nixon is inaugurated the 37th President of the United States of America.
• March 16 » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
• August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
• December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

The temperature on February 26, 1969 was between -1.6 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.