About the day » Monday April 21, 1969Calender converter

• Irma Zonneveld, Noordoostpolder († 2000)
• Matthew John Lenig, Abington, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Nathalie Yazbek
• Erwin Hellemans, Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2004)
• Marcel Dennekamp, Veendam
• Daphne Talitha Bianca Riethorst-van Cimmenaede, Groningen († 2016)
• Natasja de Wit, ,, Roermond, Nederland († 1971)
• Todd A Abbas, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois († 2002)
• Doodgeboren kind van Beerendonk, Tilburg († 1969)

• Christiaan Cornelis van Eijnsbergen (83), Heemstede
• Arend Pietersz Duijvenvoorde van (84), Katwijk
• Elisabeth Schnoor * (70)
• Catharina Ridder (70), Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Boele Deen (84), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Alphonsina Leopoldina DE CONINCK (70), Gent,9000,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• CAROLUS VAN DEN BOGAERT (76), Deurne
• Diewertje Wierenga (84), Appingedam,, Groningen, Nederland
• Elisabeth Clara Wilhelmina Frederike Pauline Ferdinande van Bülow (91)
• Anthoon Jacob van Es (69), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1967 » Emilio Valle, Cuban hurdler
• 1968 » Peter van Vossen, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1969 » John Kibowen, Kenyan runner
• 1969 » Toby Stephens, English actor
• 1970 » Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1970 » Jeff Anderson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian
• 1971 » Axl Rotten, American wrestler († 2016)
• 1971 » Michael Turner, American author and illustrator († 2008)

• 1965 » Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1971 » François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1974 » Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b.1947)
• 1978 » Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877)
• 1980 » Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928)

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.
• April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
• September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
• September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
• November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
• 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 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

The temperature on April 21, 1969 was between 2.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 10.8 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.