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• Hendrik den Besten, Elburg († 1970)
• Fernando MORENO Y DE BORBÓN, Madrid Spain († 2011)
• Walter Brent "Brent" van Tonder († 2010)
• Robert van Dongen, Rotterdam († 2003)
• Jean pierre Courbois, Rotterdam, Ned
• Kelvin Lewis “Hook” Todd ?****, LaGrange, Troup, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 2017)

• Anna Isabelle Supanich (43), Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan, United States
• Dena Peters (81)
• Albertus Pirovano (62)
• Alida Zoutman (82), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland (Gem De Ronde Venen) Nederland
• Derkina Visser (85), Hoogezand
• Anne van der Veen (72), Kollum, Kollumerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Catharina Helena (Catrien) den Hollander (80), Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland
• Adrianus Groothuis (70), Hengelo
• Anna Catharina Joris (83), Geel
• Amy Anna (85)

• 1966 » Ralf Altmeyer, German-Chinese virologist and academic
• 1966 » Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
• 1967 » Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1968 » Billy Crudup, American actor
• 1968 » Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1969 » Sugizo, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1970 » Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Sylvain Gaudreault, Canadian educator and politician
• 1970 » Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
• 1971 » Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach

• 1965 » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)
• 1968 » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1973 » Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
• 1979 » Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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.
• January 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 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.
• March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• May 2 » The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
• July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
• November 14 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

The temperature on July 8, 1969 was between 8.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.