About the day » Friday August 22, 1969Calender converter

• Maureen VAN UYTFANG, Zele
• Owen Stacy Wagner, Penticton, Canada († 2006)
• Anna Cornelia Maria (Annelie) Gevers, Bergen op Zoom († 2019)
• Myriam Alyda Guilaumme Maria Meex, Tongeren (B)
• Geraldine Flantua, Utrecht

• Adam Sean Cookes (3), Adelaïde, SA, Australia
• CATHARINA VAN WALSEM (78), VELP
• Berend Trenning (85), Laude, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arie Donselaar (66), Achttienhoven
• Constant Mens (51), Bergen op Zoom
• Catherina Antonia Verbrugge (47), Hillegom,Zuid Holland
• Arnoldina Maria van Bree (76), Someren
• Cornelis Monden (77), Prinsenbeek, Nederland
• Alfredo Dallari (86), Serra Negra, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alma Roy Woodward Thwaites (54), Rotokohu Rd, Paeroa, Waikato, New Zealand

• 1967 » Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian
• 1968 » Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 » Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian businesswoman
• 1968 » Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player († 2008)
• 1968 » Rich Lowry, American writer and magazine editor (National Review)
• 1970 » Charlie Connelly, English author and broadcaster
• 1970 » Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 1970 » Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer

• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 » Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (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.
• March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• May 2 » The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
• August 17 » Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
• November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
• 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 22, 1969 was between 11.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.