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• Stefaan Baecke, Assebroek-Brugge († 2019)
• Jenny Grim, Terheijden,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• karin gielen
• Brenda LeAnn de Kruyff, Iowa († 1993)
• Abraham Vos, Emmen

• Annegien Bos (64)
• Alle Dijkstra (73), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ada Maria Albertine Kindermann (47)
• Berthe Renée Marcelle Leroy (78), Herblay
• Alberta, Emerentia in der Maur (82), Gemeente Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernadus Hermanus Wessels (56), Sabie, Zuid-Afrika
• Alida Elisabeth Vinju (75), Amsterdam
• Adriana Hopman (79), Beverwijk
• Bernardine Maria Theunissen (91), Venlo
• Anna BUIJS (43), Volendam, Gemeente Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1968 » Minoru Suzuki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1968 » Steve Georgallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Geoff Toovey, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1969 » Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner
• 1970 » Jason Hanson, American football player
• 1970 » Michael Showalter, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Popeye Jones, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 » Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 » Will Forte, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter

• 1957 » Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1957 » J. R. Williams, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888)
• 1961 » Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1963 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
• 1968 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1975 » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1979 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Richard O'Connor, Indian-English general (b. 1889)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

The temperature on June 17, 1969 was between 11.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.