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• Antonio Hoffmann, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1969)
• Andréas Johannes van der Horst
• Saskia Louise van Loosen, Kaapstad (Zuid-Afrika)
• Jef Vandecraen, Geel (B), België († 2018)
• Daniel Paul Anderson, Stearns, Minnesota († 1988)
• Jos Hendrikus Lambertus Wolken, Nieuw-Schoonebeek, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 2009)
• Jos Hendrikus Lambertus Wolken, Nieuw-Schoonebeek († 2009)
• Donald Clifford Todd ?****, Pahokee Palm, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 1995)

• Cornelia Helena Zonneveld (70), Heiloo
• Arnolda Johanna Maria van Grinsven (58), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Antonius van den Heuvel (78), Aarle-Rixtel
• Anne Osinga (87)
• Andries August Marie Loo, van der (63), 's-Gravenhage Zhl. NL
• Batje Veldkamp (91), Oosterwolde
• Adamina Gesina Bosch (83), Zwolle
• Adriaan Bekking (77)
• Constantia Maria Josephina van Gils (105), Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Allie Houston Brewer (48)

• 1967 » Mike Portnoy, American drummer and songwriter
• 1967 » Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
• 1968 » Julia Morris, Australian entertainer
• 1968 » Roman Virastyuk, Ukrainian shot putter
• 1968 » Yelena Välbe, Russian skier and manager
• 1969 » Felix Baumgartner, Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper
• 1969 » Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania
• 1970 » Avishai Cohen, Israeli singer-songwriter and bassist
• 1970 » Sarantuya, Mongolian soprano
• 1970 » Shemar Moore, American actor

• 1947 » Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1968 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1969 » Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)

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 16 » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
• July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
• 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.
• October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
• 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.
• November 20 » Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

The temperature on April 20, 1969 was between -0.3 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.