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• Jan Maarten de Monchy, Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Frederik Willem Gerco Bossenbroek, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2008)
• Dirk Broekema, Amersfoort, Gelderland, Nederland
• Marc Van Eeckhaute († 2004)
• Anita van den Broek, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Adriaan Leonardus Petrus van Boxtel (50), Tilburg
• Albert Kaan (53), Amersfoort
• Cyril Ewart Taylor ATAY01.CYR01X (74), n/k
• Daan Witte, Leimuiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Edward Davis Shepherd (79), Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey
• Arendina Elema (68), Groningen
• Arendina Elema (68)
• Antonia van Erp (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Afiena Annechiena Koetse (69), Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Barend Neef (65), (OV) Enschede

• 1969 » Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1971 » Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Corin Nemec, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
• 1971 » Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer
• 1971 » Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1971 » Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
• 1971 » Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
• 1971 » Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1963 » Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (b. 1916)
• 1964 » Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1972 » Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)

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.
• January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
• March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
• June 4 » Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

The temperature on November 5, 1970 was between 7.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.