About the day » Wednesday March 19, 1969Calender converter

• Renske Cornelia Duinstra, Amsterdam
• John Paul Griffioen, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada († 1980)
• Russell Edward Justin, Dixon County, Illinois († 2007)
• Pete STUURSMA, Evergreen Park Cook County Illinois U.S.A († 2005)
• Jan Cornelisz de Geus, Broek op Langedijk, Noord Holland († 2002)
• John Paul Griffioen, British Columbia, Canada († 1980)
• Silvia Pelzer, Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Terissa Joy HILLIER († 1969)
• Boudewijn Duinstra, Amsterdam
• Teade Baukes Haitsma († 1995)

• Aale Huizinga (80), Ten Boer (gem. Groningen)
• Alphonsa Maria Tijs (62), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Zoete (98), Monster
• Pieter Jan Ba(e)ten (82), Steenbergen
• Antje Bulthuis (76), Oosterbroek, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus van Heeringen (0)
• Afke Cnossen (75)
• Alexander Vros (80)
• Alle Kooistra (55), Groningen
• Alle Kooistra (55), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1964 » Jake Weber, English actor
• 1964 » Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1966 » Andy Sinton, English international footballer, midfielder and manager
• 1966 » Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician
• 1966 » Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1968 » Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 » Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer († 2011)
• 1970 » Michael Krumm, German race car driver
• 1973 » Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach

• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)
• 1978 » M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1891)
• 1982 » J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1982 » Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1956)
• 1984 » Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
• 1986 » Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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 18 » United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
• 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 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
• September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
• December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

The temperature on March 19, 1969 was between -0.4 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.