About the day » Friday December 5, 1969Calender converter

• Helena Cornelia van Sommeren, Tiel
• Yvonne Pijpers, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Jacqueline Knight Moffitt, Payson, Utah County, Utah († 2003)
• Bert Derksen († 1969)
• Bert Derksen, Denekamp († 1969)
• Freddy Derksen, Denekamp († 1969)
• Gerrit Heijkamp, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 1978)
• Dencio Franklin Viereck, Paramaribo, Suriname († 1975)
• Terrance Lee Barrow († 1996)
• Cornelis Visser, Scharnegoutum († 1980)

• Amy Lillian McMichen (65), Chattanooga, Hamilton,TN
• Arie Bosman (75), Rotterdam Charlois
• Alice van Battenberg (84), Buckingham Palace, City of London, London, England
• Adriaan de Putter (92), Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Putter (92), Zaamslag Nederland
• Adriana Jaapje Knook (77), Fijnaart, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus Hendrik Westdijk (77), Utrecht
• Alice von Battenberg ,princesse de Battenberg ,princesse de Grèce et de Danemark (Maison de Battenberg) (84), Palais de Buckingham, Londres, Royaume-Uni
• Catharina Johanna Oudt (84), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alice Victoria Elizabeth Julia Maria van Battenberg (84), Buckingham Palace

• 1968 » Dynamite Kid, English wrestler († 2018)
• 1968 » Falilat Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter
• 1968 » Lisa Marie, American model and actress
• 1968 » Lydia Millet, American novelist
• 1968 » Margaret Cho, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Eric Etebari, American actor, director, and producer
• 1969 » Lewis Pugh, English swimmer and lawyer
• 1969 » Morgan J. Freeman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Ramón Ramírez, Mexican footballer
• 1969 » Sajid Javid, British Pakistani banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

• 1961 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
• 1964 » V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1969 » Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)

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 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.
• May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
• June 28 » Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
• 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.
• August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
• December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

The temperature on December 5, 1969 was between -5.4 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.