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• Estevão Gesser, Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1970)
• Stella Jacoba Maria Huiberts, Wognum († 1970)
• Stephanie Rae LARSON, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Cornelis Theodorus Bernardus Maria Smits, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Peter Schenkels
• Jeffrey Sungkono, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia († 2018)
• Birga Keune († 2015)

• Cornelis Janz. KIESLING (83), Hippolytushoef/Wieringen (NL/NH)
• Antonie Dilling (72), Utrecht
• Albert BURE (82), Crisnée,4367,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Anna Maria Stassen (64), Meerssen
• Dina Willemina te Pas (74), Doetinchem
• Catharina Van Tongeren (83), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Maria Biermans (86), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Anna Pieternella van Beveren (90), Rotterdam (ijsselmonde)
• Alke van Dijk (78)
• Antje Bijlenga (56), Hoogeveen

• 1967 » Neil Gorsuch, American judge
• 1968 » Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
• 1971 » Alex Griffin, English bass player
• 1971 » Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1971 » Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor

• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1977 » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1977 » Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

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. Ingrid
8. Linda
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.
• April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• May 14 » Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
• June 4 » Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
• September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
• October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

The temperature on August 29, 1970 was between 9.8 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.