About the day » Friday January 24, 1969Calender converter

• Leendert van Marion († 1999)
• Jack de Ruiter, Den Helder († 1969)
• Sheila Kay Voetberg, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1969)
• Hanny de Graauw, Waspik († 1970)
• Sandra Speerstra
• Oliver Sascha Brozek, Munchen, Bayern, Bondsrepubliek Duitsland
• Antonie Steenbergen

• Alexandre Antoine CERNA (59), Rennes, 35000, France
• Amadeu Otton (30), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arthur Ronda (71), Grand Rapids (Kent, Michigan, USA)
• Ansel Voorheis Cox (67)
• Anna Maria Goormans (67), Nijlen
• Annigje Corstiana Kraaijeveld (62), Amsterdam
• Adriana van Hest (84), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Aaltje de Jong (51)
• Amilia Josephina Irma Schoofs (86), Brustem, België
• Auguste Viktoria von Falkenhayn (74), Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Allemagne

• 1967 » Michael Kiske, German singer
• 1968 » Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist
• 1968 » Fernando Escartín, Spanish cyclist
• 1968 » Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
• 1968 » Tymerlan Huseynov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1969 » Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, bishop of Montenegro
• 1969 » Yoo Ho-jeong, South Korean actress
• 1970 » Matthew Lillard, American actor
• 1970 » Neil Johnson, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1970 » Roberto Bonano, Argentine footballer

• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)

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.
• March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
• September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
• 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 January 24, 1969 was between 3.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.