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• Cornelis Johannes Schouten, Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Jeffery Alan Carroll, Ventura, CA
• robbie johannes lodivicus gerardus (rob) peeters, helden-dorp
• Alexander Jozef MOELKER, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Lori Lynn Hahn

• Adrianus Leonardus Toussaint (71), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertus Marinus Cornelisse t' LAM (79), Vlaardingen
• Berendina Kamphorst (76), Hoevelaken
• Arend Baron van Westerholt (71), Zutphen
• Adolf Alphonsus Leenaars (67), Amsterdam
• Arline P Peck (93), St Helena, Napa, California, United States
• Christiaan Cornelis van Poelgeest (66), amsterdam, Nederland
• Beschier Driesse (77), Middelharnis
• Antonius Jacobus Buuron (71), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Apolonia Flipse (86), Westkapelle

• 1969 » Dylan Neal, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Jeremy Davies, American actor
• 1970 » Anne-Marie Duff, English actress
• 1970 » Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Congolese colonel
• 1970 » Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Sadiq Khan, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Transport, Mayor of London
• 1970 » Sisaundra Lewis, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game designer and director
• 1971 » David Gauke, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 » Marc Ellis, New Zealand rugby player and television host

• 1958 » Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Jean Giono, French author and poet (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)

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. 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.
• March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
• April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
• April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
• December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.

The temperature on October 8, 1970 was between 4.1 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.