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• Kornelius Wilts, Onstwedde
• Andrew Willing († 1970)
• Yves Karel Maria Van huffel, Bornem († 1970)

• Bernice te Brink (51), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Alice Ernestine van Dellen (57)
• Antonio Bonin da Cruz (60), Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
• Antonius Thomas Post (50), Amsterdam
• Albert Schonewille (84), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Catharina Johanna van Leeuwen (59), Den Haag
• Adrianus Galama (90), Bovenkarspel, Nederland
• Antonia Wilhelmina Planque- (55), St Catharines, Canada
• Alexander Anthonius Wolff (68), Nijmegen
• Bertha Helena Reijnen (63), Batenburg, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1965 » Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 » Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 » Steve Olin, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1967 » Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
• 1967 » Nick Green, Australian rower
• 1968 » Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
• 1968 » Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1971 » Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1974 » Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)

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. Linda
8. Ingrid
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Elisabeth
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.
• 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.
• August 9 » LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
• August 23 » Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• October 10 » Fiji becomes independent.
• November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• November 26 » In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

The temperature on October 4, 1970 was between 8.4 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 10.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.