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• jacco van der GRAAF, oud-beijerland († 1969)
• Berend (Be) Mol, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Jennifer Christine Bissmeyer, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Egbert Dominic Benoît Johan SMET, Bornem,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1969)

• Annechien Dik (83)
• Adriana Jansen (76), Schoten (B)
• Barteltje de Jong (94), Terzool
• Cornelis Johannes Wilhelm Dekker (83), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dubbeld Samplonius (70), Driemond
• Adriaan Frijters (51), Borsbeek
• Aloisius Petrus Maximilianus Maria de Bruijn (51), Breda
• Bertha MADDEN (80), Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
• Adriana Petronella van Vliet (76), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Wilhelm Dekker (83), Brielle

• 1967 » Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach
• 1968 » Arshad Warsi, Indian film actor and producer
• 1968 » Ashley Judd, American actress and activist
• 1969 » Andrew Carnie, Canadian-American linguist, author, and academic
• 1969 » Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
• 1970 » Abelardo Fernández, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1970 » Kelly Holmes, English runner
• 1970 » Luis Miguel, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1971 » Brendon Burns, Australian comedian, podcaster, writer and author
• 1971 » Scott McCord, Canadian voice actor

• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Hugh Brannum, American vocalist, arranger, and composer (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)

• 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 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
• July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
• November 15 » Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
• November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
• December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.

The temperature on April 19, 1969 was between -0.2 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.