About the day » Saturday September 20, 1969Calender converter

• Hendrik Louis VAN DER MERWE, Zesfontein, Benoni († 1979)
• Mark Andrew LYNCH († 2001)
• Petronella Jacoba van Waveren († 2022)
• Johannes Arnoldus Maria de Beurs
• Jean-Daniel Maximin LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1988)
• John Johannes Cristoffer Videler
• Edward Brian Voorhaar († 1987)
• Petronella Jacoba (Peja) van Waveren († 2022)
• Lotti Maria Satter, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Alice Pharailde Pollier (69), Sijsele
• Anna Bertha Marie Griebenow (81), Scheveningen, Niederlande
• Christina Thijssen (62), Aruba
• Berend Kuiper (84), Wagenborgen (Termunten)
• Anna Bertha Maria Griebenow (81), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje STEENSMA (74), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia VAN DE HAAR (74)
• Anna Christina Hoogkamer (84), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Grillet (63), Oostnieuwkerke
• Arie Napoleon Drinhuijzen (48), Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland

• 1967 » Roger Anderson, American wrestler
• 1968 » Darrell Russell, American race car driver († 2004)
• 1968 » Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1968 » Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
• 1968 » Philippa Forrester, English television and radio presenter, producer and author
• 1969 » Ben Shepherd, American musician and songwriter
• 1969 » Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1969 » Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1969 » Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 » N'Bushe Wright, American actress and dancer

• 1957 » Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1957 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (b. 1865)
• 1970 » Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1971 » James Westerfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1975 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)

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 17 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
• July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
• July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
• 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 September 20, 1969 was between 2.2 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.