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Born on Sunday January 5, 1969
- Charles Mora, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
- Arend Gerrit - Arie Schuler, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1984)
- Eric Swillens, Maaseik, Provincie Limburg, België († 1980)
- Wilhelmina Maria van Maasakker, Maastricht
- Coen Vos, Haarlem, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1969)
- Frank Vos, Haarlem, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1969)
- Maria Everarda Hendrika Helena Pauline Zieltjes († 2023)
- Jacob Pieter Lemson, Delft († 1996)
Died on Sunday January 5, 1969
- Albertus van Arsen (68), Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Alida Maria LUCASSEN (76), Purmerend (Noord Holland) (NL)
- Alice Ann [Annie Rose) Overstreet (75), Kissimmee,Osceola County,Florida, Verenigde Staten
- Agatha Dekker (80), Limmen, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Anna Maria Bekkers (85), Schijndel
- Amalia Frederika Joseph (51), Oudenbosch, Halderberge, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- Abraham Cevaal (77), Vlissingen
- Antonia Francisca Corbeau (45), Leiden (wo den Haag)
- Alstje Kluin (90), Kalamazoo,, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
- Abraham Cevaal (77), Vlissingen
Born on January 5
- 1965 » Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
- 1965 » Vinnie Jones, English/Welsh footballer and actor
- 1968 » Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- 1968 » Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player and engineer
- 1969 » Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
- 1969 » Shaun Micheel, American golfer
- 1971 » Stian Carstensen, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and composer
- 1972 » Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1973 » Uday Chopra, Bollywood actor and filmmaker
- 1974 » Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter and coach
Died on January 5
- 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
- 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
- 1971 » Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
- 1972 » Tevfik Rüştü Aras, Turkish physician and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
- 1974 » Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
- 1976 » John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
- 1978 » Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 1979 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
- 1979 » Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (b. 1922)
Names that were popular for boys in 1969
- Jan
- Johannes
- Robert
- Peter
- Richard
- Hendrik
- Cornelis
- Edwin
- Mark
- Michael
- Marcel
- David
- Pieter
- Willem
- Patrick
- Ronald
Names that were popular for girls in 1969
- Maria
- Johanna
- Monique
- Sandra
- Elisabeth
- Jolanda
- Esther
- Karin
- Ingrid
- Anna
- Yvonne
- Petra
- Miranda
- Cornelia
- Anita
- Catharina
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1969
- 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.
- March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- April 22 » British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
- August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
- September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
- November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
Weather January 5, 1969
The temperature on January 5, 1969 was between -2.3 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.