About the day » Tuesday January 6, 1970Calender converter

• Petrus Johannes Herrewijn, Alfen († 1973)
• Marc Jules Cornil DEMOL, Dunkerque... Hauts de France († 2017)
• Wesley Trent Kyzar [||| Bu], Walthall County, Jayess, Mississippi († 1975)
• David Stein, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England († 1992)
• Femmie Pit, Nijeveen († 2019)
• Margot Desiree Meijer, Den Helder († 1970)
• Rebecca Ann HERRING, Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• Edwin Marinus Gerardus Esveld, Nijmegen († 1970)
• Edwin Esveld, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1970)
• Reinder Kloen († 1999)

• Anthonie Gerbrand de Vries (74), Zaandam
• Agnes Marie FORDE (73), Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Alice Korver (76), Ohio, V.S
• Albert Dekker (88), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Gerbrand de Vries (74), Zaandam, Nederland
• Augustine Maria König (76), 's Gravenhage
• Arie Verhagen (47), Schoorl
• Aaltje Harskamp (84), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Christina van Vliet (83)
• Adriana Vaandrager (87), Rotterdam

• 1964 » Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and manager
• 1965 » Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic
• 1966 » Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1966 » Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress
• 1967 » A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist
• 1968 » John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Norman Reedus, American actor and model
• 1970 » Julie Chen, American television journalist, presenter, and producer
• 1970 » Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager
• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player

• 1949 » Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)

• 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.
• February 18 » The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
• June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
• September 30 » Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
• October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
• November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

The temperature on January 6, 1970 was between -3.7 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.