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• Nn Krikken
• Gordina Jacoba Maria (Ingrit) Cuynen, Helmond († 1972)
• Stanley Baars

• Bertha Fay Arrowood (78), Fulton, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Alberta Willemina van de Vosse (85), Heerde
• Arendje Leenderts Stam (82), Egmond aan Zee
• Petrus Josephus de Krom (65), Bergen op Zoom
• Antonius Joannes Pelkmans (81), Gilze en Rijen
• Anne Mathilde Josephine WARNANTS (87), Kanne (Limburg) (B)
• Aart Streefkerk (78)
• Aloysius Gerardus Maria Beukers (79), Parijs, Frankrijk
• Adriana Johanna Leonarda Kooijmans (83), Eindhoven
• Angelo Andreatto (70), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1968 » Eri Nitta, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1968 » Mathew St. Patrick, American actor and producer
• 1969 » Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer, founded own eponymous brand († 2010)
• 1969 » Edgar Grospiron, French skier
• 1970 » Gene Ween, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 » Patrick Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 » Bill Mueller, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1972 » Mia Hamm, American soccer player
• 1972 » Torquil Campbell, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Jeroen
8. Marcel
9. Pieter
10. Michael
11. Hendrik
12. Patrick
13. Marco
14. Mark
15. Willem
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Ingrid
8. Linda
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Nathalie
16. Saskia

• 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 13.0 million citizens.
• March 21 » The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
• April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
• May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
• November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
• December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

The temperature on March 17, 1970 was between 4.1 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.