About the day » Saturday March 8, 1969Calender converter

• Jan Hakkers († 1983)
• Michael Edward Buddington, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• Johannes Hendrik Maria Apeldoorn, Egmond aan Zee († 1970)
• Eline Splinter († 1999)
• Hielko Terwal, Amsterdam

• Adriana Johanna Jana Kort de (88), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annette Cornélie Eikenboom (82), Maastricht
• Adrianus Josephnus Maat (66)
• Adriaan Fijnaut (83), Middelburg
• Adrianus Hendrikus Fleuren (48), Mill en Sint Hubert
• Annemieke Maria Maurice Van de Moortele (13), Gent
• Antonius Marinus van Summeren (82), Nijmegen
• Arie De Gooyer (70), Des Moines (Polk County) (Iowa)
• Adriana van Dijk (89), Someren
• "Marie-Therese" Theodorine Ghislaine de Pierpont (80), Namur

• 1966 » Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician
• 1966 » Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic
• 1967 » Joel Johnston, American baseball player
• 1968 » Michael Bartels, German race car driver
• 1968 » Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, Mexican footballer
• 1970 » Jason Elam, American football player
• 1971 » Kit Symons, English-Welsh footballer and manager
• 1972 » Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1972 » Matthew Nable, Australian rugby player and actor

• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Mark
9. Edwin
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. Karin
8. Esther
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.
• March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• May 18 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
• June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
• August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

The temperature on March 8, 1969 was between -5.0 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.