About the day » Thursday October 2, 1969Calender converter

• David James Brouwer, Oak Park, IL
• Merlin Dean Spoelstra, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2014)
• Rodney Wolters, Voorschoten, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• David John JAGER, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada († 1988)
• Katja Stumpers († 2011)
• petra gerris, helden-dorp († 1969)
• Derek Alexander Kurtz, Destin, Okaloosa, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2014)

• Adrianus Johannes van Schie (85), Stein
• Albertus Könning (71)
• Arie de Kruijf (71), Gouda (ZH, NLD)
• Antonetta Maria van Puijenbroek (73), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Anna Maria Verwoert (82), Doorn (UTR) The Netherlands
• Agatha Elisabeth van Hoek (65), Woensdrecht, Brabant
• Alexander Bernardus Snijders (66), Heerlen
• Albert Frederick Nickel (83)
• Aria Johanna Bongers (74), amersfoort (utrecht)
• Annechien Romp (71), Veendam

• 1968 » Benjie Paras, Filipino basketball player and actor
• 1968 » Glen Wesley, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 » Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player and sportscaster († 2017)
• 1968 » Jeff Martin, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 » Kelly Willis, American country music singer-songwriter
• 1968 » Victoria Derbyshire, English journalist and radio host
• 1969 » Badly Drawn Boy, English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• 1969 » Mitch English, American talk show host, comedian, weatherman
• 1970 » Eddie Guardado, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 » Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian soprano and producer

• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
• 1968 » Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1975 » K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)

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 17 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
• June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
• July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
• August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
• October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
• December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

The temperature on October 2, 1969 was between 4.1 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.