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• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1970)
• Petrus W.M. Vollmuller, Delft
• Cornelis Aart van Alphen, Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1972)
• Mark Halma († 1995)

• Adriana Valster (83), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Thomas Verwater (82), Dongen
• Andries Kuipers (76)
• Catharina Johanna van Dijk (61), Leiden
• Anna Lucretia Hartgers (73), WEESP (Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Luanna Allred (83), Afton, Lcn., WY
• Anna Lucretia Hartgers (73), Weesp
• Anna Elizabeth Haagedoorn (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberto Lorento Francesco Militerni (53), California
• Anna Elisabeth Schut (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1968 » Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1968 » Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
• 1969 » Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer
• 1969 » Shaun Udal, English cricketer
• 1969 » Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
• 1970 » Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress
• 1971 » Kitty Ussher, English economist and politician
• 1971 » Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1971 » Mike Bell, American wrestler († 2008)
• 1971 » Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player

• 1962 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
• 1965 » Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1973 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
• 1977 » Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1977 » Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
• 1978 » Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1978 » Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)

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

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

• 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.
• January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
• September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
• November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.

The temperature on March 18, 1970 was between 2.9 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.