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• Hendrikje Hermina Hekman († 1979)
• Martinus Petrus Wilhelnus Kitsz, Heerhugowaard († 1969)
• Tineke Huizinga († 2012)
• Dirkje Petronella van Zadelhoff, Zetten (Gelderland) Nederland
• Lammert Dulleman, Hoogezand-Sappemeer († 1969)

• * Johanna Maria Verhagen (67), Nijnsel
• Abigaël Wilhelmina Wijling (90), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Marie Henriette van Aubel (85), Maastricht
• Antje Zuiderduin (81), Leiden
• Anton Tjallings Nicolai (55), Drogeham, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Duijndam (79), Noordwijk
• André Gengler (9), Erica
• Abraham Johannes Mulder (79), Amsterdam
• Alida Annes Dijkstra (95), Landsmeer
• Arie Antonie Hofman (91), Hilversum

• 1967 » Cat Cora, American chef and author
• 1967 » Pervis Ellison, American basketball player
• 1968 » Charlotte Coleman, English actress († 2001)
• 1968 » Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer
• 1968 » Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1968 » Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 » Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
• 1969 » Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer
• 1969 » Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach
• 1969 » Rodney Hampton, American football player

• 1958 » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)
• 1962 » Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
• 1976 » Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1976 » David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)

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.
• January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
• January 25 » Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
• May 26 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
• July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
• August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 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".

The temperature on April 3, 1969 was between -0.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.