About the day » Monday August 18, 1969Calender converter

• Ronald Engels, Horst, Li.NL († 1969)
• Willem van Stijn, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Antje Jantje Tolhuis, Emmen
• Irine Anne Estelle Hopmans, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Pieter Postma, Meppel († 1969)
• Christel Rosalia CLAES, Willebroek,2830,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2010)

• Bastiaan Burger (19), Roermond
• Anna Cornelia Kennis (92), Tilburg
• Berendina MAZENIER (23), Vroomshoop
• Antje Singer (79), Andijk, NL
• Adriaan Cornelis Flikweert (69), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jane Hamrick Cannon (57), Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States
• Bastiaan de Graaf (77), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne van der Veen (70), -
• Albert HOOIVELD (81), Borger, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne Egberts van der Veen (70)

• 1965 » Ikue Ōtani, Japanese voice actress
• 1966 » Gustavo Charif, Argentinian director and producer
• 1967 » Brian Michael Bendis, American author and illustrator
• 1967 » Daler Mehndi, Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1969 » Edward Norton, American actor
• 1969 » Mark Kuhlmann, German rugby player and coach
• 1970 » Jason Furman, American economist and politician
• 1970 » Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor and producer
• 1971 » Richard David James, English musician composer
• 1971 » Patrik Andersson, Swedish footballer

• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)

• 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.
• May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
• August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
• September 1 » A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
• December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
• December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.

The temperature on August 18, 1969 was between 11.3 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.