About the day » Thursday May 8, 1969Calender converter

• Bianca Vermeulen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gerrit Sean Raterink († 2001)

• Barney Alexander Campeau (84), Campbell, Santa Clara, California, United States
• Chester Morris Copenhaver (72)
• Albertus de Leeuw (51), 's Hertogenbosch
• Coenraad Grimmelikhuijsen (83), Hilversum
• Anna Elisabeth Mom (89), Rotterdam
• Adriana Cornelia Goedhart (70), Tiel
• Antonius Norbertus van Halder (81), Ommel
• Antoon Willem Rijks (23), Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelius Vortman (74), Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anne Klaas Wietsma (85), Zuidlaren

• 1967 » Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress
• 1968 » Johan Pehrson, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1968 » Nathalie Normandeau, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
• 1968 » Teet Kask, Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer
• 1969 » Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna
• 1969 » John Timu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 » Jonny Searle, English rower
• 1970 » Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1970 » Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1970 » Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist

• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1972 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Avery Brundage, American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)
• 1980 » Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)

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. 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.
• April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
• July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
• October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
• October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
• December 4 » Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

The temperature on May 8, 1969 was between 5.2 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.