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• monique neessen, jerilderie (new south wales, austalia)
• Patrik Richard Cassidy, Plumstead, London, England († 1991)
• Lily DRIESEN, Bilzen, 3740, Limburg, België († 2008)
• Belinda Sue Uhlenhopp, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2001)
• Sherry Leann Andreason, Harris Co, TX († 2014)

• Anna Maria "Nancy" Lagaaij (85), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Elizabeth van de Wege (52), Goes
• Adriaan van Damme (88), Hoedekenskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lagaaij (85), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Petronella Cornelia van Opstal (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Adriaan van Damme (88), Hoedekenskerke
• arlene jurgena (38), willmar minnesota (usa)
• Alfons Eduard Meert (59), Aalst, 9300 België
• Arlene Jurgena (38), Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Antje BUITER (48), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 1967 » Dorian West, Welsh-English rugby player
• 1967 » Guy Pearce, English-Australian actor
• 1967 » Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Audie Pitre, American singer and bass player († 1997)
• 1970 » Cal Wilson, New Zealand comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Josie Bissett, American actress
• 1970 » Matthew Knights, Australian footballer and coach
• 1970 » Tord Gustavsen, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1971 » Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Tonia Antoniazzi, British politician

• 1952 » Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver and accountant (b. 1947)

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. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Petra
13. Cornelia
14. Miranda
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 16 » Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
• May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
• July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
• 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.
• October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
• December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

The temperature on October 5, 1969 was between 9.7 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.