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• Arjan Sloots († 1986)
• Dirk Cornelis Niemann, Amsterdam († 2016)
• Marco Wuijts, Eindhoven († 1995)
• John Paul Marcel Stevens, Texel († 2011)
• loek geeraets († 2016)
• Cornelis van Hulten, Drunen († 1987)
• Eleonora Lamberta Buding († 2012)

• Cornelia Catharina van Rutten (80), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• coenraad van der molen (79), ijmuiden
• Barendina Zwart (78), Zeist
• Bouke Vos (74), Emmen
• Adriana Maria Goossens (97), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Goossens (97), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Berend Mellema (84), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Willem Bogerd (79)
• Alberdina Johanna van Hoven (80), Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Annie DUFF (81)

• 1966 » Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1966 » Scott Brosius, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 » Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 » Debra Messing, American actress
• 1969 » Bernard Fanning, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Carlos Roa, Argentine footballer
• 1970 » Anthony Anderson, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1970 » Ben Silverman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Electus Studios
• 1971 » Adnan Sami, Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor
• 1972 » Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1962 » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (b. 1942)
• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (b. 1954)

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 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.
• April 7 » The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
• April 22 » British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
• May 9 » Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
• August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
• 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 August 15, 1969 was between 15.8 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.