About the day » Sunday February 9, 1969Calender converter

• Petrus van den Hurk, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Erik Timmers, Leiden († 1969)
• Bas Dekker († 2012)
• Thijs Vonder, Dedemsvaart († 2015)

• Barbara Elizabeth Ann King (37), Eastergate, Sussex, England
• Edna I. Owen (74), Stark County, Ohio
• Antje Roefstra (79), Haarlem, NH, Nederland
• Christianus Johannes Limburg (91), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Sue Garris (65)
• Catherine Elizabeth Beinhardt (74), Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• August William Hoppe (92), Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Christian Wirtz (85), Kerpen
• Catharina Johanna Bink (72), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Teske (85), Voorschoten,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1967 » Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster
• 1967 » Gaston Browne, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister
• 1967 » Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 » Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
• 1968 » Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver
• 1968 » Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
• 1969 » Jimmy Smith, American football player
• 1970 » Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1971 » Matt Gogel, American golfer

• 1960 » Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
• 1960 » Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)

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 2 » In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
• April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
• November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

The temperature on February 9, 1969 was between -1.1 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.