About the day » Friday September 19, 1969Calender converter

• Leigh Ann McInnis, Milton, Florida († 2007)

• Bastiaantje van der Leeden (71)
• Albert Hendrik Scholte (66), Assen
• Adrianus Johannes Hessels (53), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albert Jan Kamphuis (63), Epse, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Hendrinus Keuken (63), Amersfoort
• Cornelis Jacobus TROOSTHEIDE (67), Leersum, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bauke Koning (64), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Verkoijen (83), Ospel
• Daniel Willem Oortman (80), Rotterdam
• Christina Carolina Velders (57), Deventer

• 1968 » Jimmy Bower, American drummer and songwriter
• 1968 » Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author
• 1969 » Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
• 1969 » Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer
• 1969 » Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer
• 1969 » Michael Symon, American chef and author
• 1969 » Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1970 » Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 » Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1955 » John D. Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1967 » Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
• 1972 » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1975 » Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
• 1978 » Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1985 » Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)

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 30 » The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
• April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
• May 15 » People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by the University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot.
• 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.
• September 5 » My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.

The temperature on September 19, 1969 was between 5.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.