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• Maartje van de Kamp, Putten († 1970)
• Erwin Collin († 1990)
• Ronaldy van den Bosch, Zegveld, Utrecht, the Netherlands († 1969)
• Melissa Marie Boyer, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• David Trevor NEW († 2009)
• Fernando Moreno y de Borbón, Madrid († 2011)
• Glen Murtland († 1990)
• Jilles Jacobus Rademaker, Utrecht († 1971)
• Mark Burkle, Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2017)

• Antonius Martinus Laros (68)
• Aleida_Gerarda Schot (68), Amsterdam
• Arnold Jozef Spelthan (75), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Petrus van Dinter (78), Orthen
• Aino Järnefelt (97), Ainola, Järvenpää, Finlande
• Anne Marie Francois LUCAS (88)
• Catharina Cornelia Schuren (95), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Leegwater (52), Bergen
• Annigje Kleinendorst (79), s'Gravendeel
• Christiaan Daniël Geerts (53), Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1960 » Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Terje Gewelt, Norwegian bassist
• 1960 » Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 » Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
• 1963 » Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
• 1964 » Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer

• 1959 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• 1969 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1970 » Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1971 » J.I. Rodale, American author and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)

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.
• April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
• April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
• 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.
• August 13 » The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.

The temperature on June 8, 1969 was between 8.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.