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• Mark Bernardus Maria Delpeut († 1971)
• Maria Larisse Antoinette van Dam, Utrecht († 2008)
• Petra Killewald († 2006)
• Willie Huberts
• Carlo Talboom, Roosendaal

• Bernardus Lambertus Gerhardus Oosterwijk (83), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Poelsma (73), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland
• Bert Charles Roling (70), Philipsburg, Warren, New Jersey, United States
• Cordula Henriette Judith Meijer (72), Bussum,Gemeente Bussum,North Holland,Netherlands
• Bernardus Lambertus Gerardus Oosterwijk (83), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cordula Henriette Judith MEIJER (72), Bussum
• Daniel (Danniel) A. Philbeck (87), Arkansas
• Charles Walter Ernest Wadham (81), Private Hospital formerly 49 Hastings St Glenelg SA
• Andreas Saanen (54), Eindhoven
• Diederika Johanna Waalewijn (51), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Scott Brosius, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 » Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 » Debra Messing, American actress
• 1969 » Bernard Fanning, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Carlos Roa, Argentine footballer
• 1970 » Anthony Anderson, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1970 » Ben Silverman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Electus Studios
• 1971 » Adnan Sami, Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor
• 1972 » Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballerina († 2007)

• 1962 » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (b. 1942)
• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (b. 1954)

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.
• January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
• July 3 » The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 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.
• July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

The temperature on August 15, 1970 was between 6.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.