About the day » Friday August 1, 1969Calender converter

• Henk Cornelus (Henco) Mulder, Utrecht, Nederland († 2021)
• Diana Lutters, Denekamp, Dinkelland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ivanir Lohn, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2002)
• Henk Cornelus (Henco) Mulder, Utrecht († 2021)
• Derk Dokter († 1970)
• Sylvia van Egmond│Vermae, Leiden († 1970)
• Thomas Mayr, Schärding, Schärding, Oberösterreich, Oostenrijk († 1985)
• Sylvia van Egmond, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Dusk Scott Donaldson, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 1989)

• Anna Maria Kerkkamp (86), Zutphen
• Catharina Anna de Groot (88), Den Helder
• Arie Van der Veeke (63), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriaan François BAERT (80), Velp Gelderland Netherlands
• Augustinus Lambert Hermans (57), Beerse
• * Antonie Sleeuwenhoek (89), Kedichem
• Adrianus Hubertus Koolen (85), Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonie Sleeuwenhoek (89), Kedichem
• Arie van der Veeke (63), 's-Gravenhage
• Bertha Agnes Helmstetter (77), Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, Verenigde Staten

• 1967 » Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 » Dan Donegan, American heavy metal guitarist and songwriter
• 1968 » Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 » Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
• 1969 » Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player and scout
• 1970 » David James, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
• 1970 » Quentin Coryatt, American football player

• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)

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.
• March 10 » In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
• March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• October 9 » In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• 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.

The temperature on August 1, 1969 was between 18.4 °C and 29.5 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.