About the day » Monday January 6, 1969Calender converter

• Maurice Christianus Gerardus Helmes, Tegelen († 1969)
• Kitty Anna Hendrika Hoogeveen, Voorburg (Z-H) († 2002)
• Maurice HELMES, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 2018)
• Patrick Stephan Witte, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2010)

• Johannes Veldman (74), Leeuwarden
• Adriana Josephina Matthijssen (82), Almelo
• Aaltje Gooitzens Postma (91), Hoogkerk
• Amatus Clement Mathilde Vanderpoorten (48), St. Niklaas (B)
• Anthony Groen (77), Zaanfam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij Groen (77), Wormerveer
• Albert Taaij (61), Stootshorn, Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Govaerts (89), Turnhout
• Augusta Raman (70), Wetteren
• Antonius Franciscus Cornelis Maria Genabeek (79), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1964 » Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and manager
• 1965 » Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic
• 1966 » Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1966 » Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress
• 1967 » A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist
• 1968 » John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Norman Reedus, American actor and model
• 1970 » Julie Chen, American television journalist, presenter, and producer
• 1970 » Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager
• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player

• 1945 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
• 1949 » Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (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. 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.
• May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
• July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
• December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
• December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

The temperature on January 6, 1969 was between -1.1 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.