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• Francis Zijlstra, Roodhuis († 1973)
• Edward VAN DER KLOOR

• Attje Deelstra (87), Kollum
• Cornelis de Haas (60), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Ros (84), Sprang-Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Attje Kornelis Deelstra (87), Kollum
• Anna Maria van Engelen (88), Gilze en Rijen
• Elisabeth Maria Siecker (73), Amsterdam
• Alida Beekman Chanler (96), New York City, New York Co., New York
• Anna Maria Jacoba Constantina Eras (92), Tilburg
• Diena Elsinga (83)
• Cornelis Christianus Leseman (80), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1968 » Hideo Nomo, Japanese-American baseball player
• 1968 » Jolene Watanabe, American tennis player
• 1968 » Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician
• 1969 » Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer and referee
• 1969 » Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor and physician
• 1969 » Nathalie Bouvier, French skier
• 1970 » Debbie Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 » Greg Mulholland, English politician
• 1970 » Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• 1970 » Queen Rania of Jordan

• 1963 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1965 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (b. 1891)
• 1968 » John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
• 1973 » John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)

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.
• 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.
• August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• August 14 » The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
• October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• 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 August 31, 1969 was between 12.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.