About the day » Wednesday August 6, 1969Calender converter

• Rik Boelen, Emmen
• Caroll Ann Pratt
• Anna Henriëtte Hermans, Kerkrade (L
• Amy Lynn Mallett, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Gerard Mensen († 1973)
• Marcel Rolandus Franciscus van de Ven, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Marie Louise Onderstal, Wageningen († 2021)
• Sheri Lynn VANDENBERGH († 1969)

• Anna Margaret "Peg" Tracy (64)
• Adriaan Kerstens (83), Turnhout (B), België
• Adrianus Nicolaas van der Flier (43), Hoek van Holland
• Cornelis Adrianus Timmermans (71), Gilze en Rijen
• Berendina Hendrika Stoelhorst (70), Zutphen
• arij van der MEIJDEN (78), oud-beijerland
• Aaltje Mandema, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Bruijs (83), Bergen op Zoom
• Cornelia Grootenboer (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Pendraat (81), Amsterdam

• 1967 » Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer
• 1967 » Lorna Fitzsimons, English businesswoman and politician
• 1967 » Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 » Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
• 1969 » Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1969 » Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1970 » M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Darren Eales, English footballer and lawyer
• 1972 » Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1972 » Paolo Bacigalupi, American author

• 1959 » Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)

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 20 » Richard Nixon is inaugurated the 37th President of the United States of America.
• March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
• May 21 » Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
• November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
• December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.

The temperature on August 6, 1969 was between 14.5 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.