About the day » Friday May 23, 1969Calender converter

• Filip Cailliau, Veurne, 8630, West Vlaanderen († 1972)
• Lisa Marie Grenier, Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1969)
• Sjakie Cruiming, Niebert († 1970)
• Ronald VAN DER BEEK, Barendrecht († 1969)
• "Edwin" George Textor, Almelo
• Jolanda van de Ven († 2009)
• Martin Klever († 1969)
• Johanna Elisabeth Monique Schoffelen, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland

• Aaltje Wakker (86), Urk
• Cornelia Welmoet Honig (68), Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Margaretha van SANTEN (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Letschert (77), Pannerden
• Anthonette Wories (73), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje WAKKER (86), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Antoon Rutten, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Pieters Bedijn (84), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertus Martinus van Grondel (70), Rotterdam
• Albertus Rozemeijer (0), Alkmaar

• 1965 » Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer
• 1966 » Gary Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 » Graeme Hick, Zimbabwean-English cricketer and coach
• 1967 » Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
• 1967 » Luís Roberto Alves, Mexican footballer
• 1968 » Guinevere Turner, American actress and screenwriter
• 1970 » Bryan Herta, American race car driver and businessman, co-founded Bryan Herta Autosport
• 1971 » George Osborne, English journalist and politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1972 » Martin Saggers, English cricketer and umpire
• 1972 » Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver

• 1960 » Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
• 1962 » Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879)
• 1963 » August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 » David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894)
• 1979 » S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)
• 1981 » David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 1981 » George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911)

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.
• January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
• March 2 » In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
• April 1 » The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
• May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

The temperature on May 23, 1969 was between 3.9 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.