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• Joyce Grootjen († 1982)
• Sara Anne Wetzel, Los Angeles, CA
• Kenneth Lee Holler, Snake Spring Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1973)
• Adriana Henrica van Rooij, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Rene BEKS, Emmeloord (NL/OV) Lived Kampen (NL/OV) Lived Zwolle (NL/OV) († 2014)
• Robertus Bijvelds, Veghel († 1977)
• Foppe Kerbof, Nieuwolda († 1988)
• Daniel B. Willis

• Clasina van Eijk (67), Dordrecht
• Anna Maria SMITS (70), Deurne,5756,Noord-Brabant,PAYS-BAS
• Anneta Carolina Boots (83), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• anna maria (mie) smits (70), liessel
• Anthonie Euser (61), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Byron Sylvester Dotson (65), Waynesfield, Auglaize Co, Ohio
• Anita van Luttikhuizen (1), Amersfoort
• Adrianus van den Hout (62), Gilze en Rijen
• Anna Cornelia Gedden (78), Tilburg
• Adriana Walterina Pieternella Verhage (78), Beek, Nederland

• 1966 » Jörn Großkopf, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Neil Gorsuch, American judge
• 1968 » Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
• 1971 » Alex Griffin, English bass player
• 1971 » Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1971 » Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach

• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1977 » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1977 » Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

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.
• January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
• April 5 » Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
• July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
• September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• October 9 » In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
• October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.

The temperature on August 29, 1969 was between 12.6 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.