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• Roger Marchel Schuller, Den Haag († 2021)
• Johan de Smidt († 1988)
• Harmen Foppen, Harderwijk († 1998)
• Miranda Mens, Tilburg († 2007)

• Arie Krijgsman (50), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmus (86), Maastricht
• Bastiaantje Boon (83), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Catharina WILHELMUS (86), Maastricht
• Cornelia Verhallen (72), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Kloet (75)
• Anna Catharina Cox (76), Montfort,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aagtje van Beveren (76), Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Joannes Hubertus Dijk van (89), Tilburg, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Numan (58), Beverwijk

• 1968 » Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
• 1968 » David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1968 » Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 » Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
• 1969 » Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
• 1969 » Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker
• 1969 » Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Wood Harris, American actor
• 1969 » Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1970 » Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer

• 1965 » Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
• 1970 » Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1970 » Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1970 » Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1972 » George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)

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 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 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.
• June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
• July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• September 25 » The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

The temperature on October 17, 1969 was between 6.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.