About the day » Saturday February 1, 1969Calender converter

• Donald Wayne Starns, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Harold Lee Jr. Harlow, Allen County, Kentucky, United States of America († 1969)
• Erica Mertens, Breda
• Bernard Jack MARTIN († 1990)
• Yvonne Bras († 2006)

• Bernard "Barney" Morris (67), Altaglushan, Galbally, Dungannon, Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Cornelis Vermeulen (83), Heiloo
• Bastiaan van der Hoek (44), Den Haag
• Eduard Maenhout (84), Ruiselede
• Catharina OOSTRIJCK (86), Amsterdam
• Dirk Henricus Martinus Jansen (68), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Verkooijen (82), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Lucia De de Bruijn (91), Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cora (Coate) Eleanor Chandler (89), Shubert, Richardson, County, Nebraska
• Anna Maria Willemse (77), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1967 » Meg Cabot, American author and screenwriter
• 1968 » Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1968 » Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1969 » Andrew Breitbart, American journalist, author, and publisher († 2012)
• 1969 » Brian Krause, American actor and screenwriter
• 1969 » Franklyn Rose, Jamaican cricketer
• 1969 » Gabriel Batistuta, Argentinian footballer
• 1969 » Patrick Wilson, American drummer
• 1970 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor († 2000)
• 1970 » Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver

• 1957 » Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Mark
9. Edwin
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. 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 15 » The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
• 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.
• May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
• 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.
• September 5 » My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

The temperature on February 1, 1969 was between 0.8 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.