About the day » Tuesday April 15, 1969Calender converter

• Michael Robert Mulholland, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County, NS, Canada († 2012)
• René Schulte († 2016)
• Lucienne Adriana Barbara Heydra, Berkel en Rodenrys
• Onno Hendrik Rinzema († 1998)
• Kristy Ray van Roekel, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa († 2003)
• Klaas Jan Tot
• Petra Terhorst, St. Tönis (DL († 1987)
• Kurt Suykerbuyk
• Dirk jellema († 1974)

• Clarice Mae Jacobson (81), SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie (Anton) LAZERON (82), Manchester, California (USA)
• Antonie Zijlmans (85), Rotterdam
• Alewijn Verboom (99)
• Berend Weideman (79), Deventer
• Aldert ZWAARD, van der (60), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Baar (71), Uithuizermeeden, Netherlands
• Berendjen Nagelhout (68), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Bree (50), Tilburg
• Cornelis Gerardus Perfors (89), Oestgeest

• 1967 » Dara Torres, American swimmer and journalist
• 1967 » Frankie Poullain, Scottish bass player and songwriter
• 1968 » Ben Clarke, English rugby player and coach
• 1968 » Brahim Lahlafi, Moroccan-French runner
• 1968 » Ed O'Brien, English guitarist
• 1969 » Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
• 1969 » Jimmy Waite, Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
• 1969 » Kaisa Roose, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1970 » Chris Huffins, American decathlete and coach
• 1971 » Philippe Carbonneau, French rugby player

• 1962 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1962 » Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
• 1967 » Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)

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.
• July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• August 15 » The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
• September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
• December 6 » Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.

The temperature on April 15, 1969 was between 4.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 14.6 mm of rain during 10.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.