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• Vincent Matthijs Christiaan de Jongh (du Croo de Jongh), Groenekan, Nederland († 1969)
• bradley ramsamy († 1986)
• Iris Marijke Bais, Arnhem († 2002)
• Patricia Schutijser, Mechelen, Antwerpen, België († 2024)
• Margriet Dominique MIDDELKOOP, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Marike Wiemerink, Goor († 2018)

• Albert Franklin Ryan (89), Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
• Carolina Hendrika Wilhelmina KRAAIJKAMP (61), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Wijngaarden (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adeline Mary Wilmes (78), Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
• Berend Berends (46), Deventer
• Calistia Zenida Reese (69), Oakland, Alameda, California, United States
• Antje de Jong (79), Oosterzee
• Catharina Elisabeth Siecker (63), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Veenstra (78)
• Albertus Schuurmans (76), Boxtel, NL

• 1968 » Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
• 1968 » Archon Fung, American political scientist, author, and academic
• 1969 » Bison Dele, American basketball player († 2002)
• 1969 » Bret Boone, American baseball player and manager
• 1969 » Paul Rudd, American actor
• 1969 » Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver
• 1969 » Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist
• 1970 » Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
• 1970 » Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 » Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)

• 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 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
• March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
• 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 1 » A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
• November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

The temperature on April 6, 1969 was between 1.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.