About the day » Tuesday August 5, 1969Calender converter

• Katrina Marie Strehl, Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1995)
• Marieke Sofie de Jong, Den Helder († 1997)
• Anneke Ensing († 1976)
• Albertus Myburgh Bruyns († 1996)
• Stefan Paul Wahle
• Seba Eugene Kittrell Jr. [K USS], Greene County, Mississippi op († 2003)
• Marieke Sofie de Jong, Den Helder († 1997)
• Luc Wuyts († 1988)

• Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg - Schwerin (95), Eutin, D
• Antoinetta Lamberta Bronkhorst (71), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barbara (Batje) Catharina ZIJL,VAN (80), Vlaardingen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (95), Eutin
• Barbara Catharina Jacoba (Batje) van Zijl (80), ,, Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Arie Volker (76), Sliedrecht Zhl. NL
• Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich VON MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN (95), Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Barbara Catharina Jacoba van Zijl (80), Vlaardingen
• Barbara Kerr **** (67), Scotland
• "Adolf Friedrich" Albrecht Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (95), Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Allemagne

• 1968 » Colin McRae, Scottish race car driver († 2007)
• 1968 » John Olerud, American baseball player
• 1968 » Kendo Kashin, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1968 » Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
• 1968 » Oleh Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Terri Clark, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Jackie Doyle-Price, English politician
• 1969 » Robert Scott, Australian rower
• 1969 » Vasbert Drakes, Barbadian cricketer
• 1969 » Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer and coach

• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1978 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 1983 » Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (b. 1913)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Mark
9. Edwin
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. Anna
11. Yvonne
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 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• 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 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• August 15 » The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
• December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

The temperature on August 5, 1969 was between 19.0 °C and 29.1 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.