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• Glen Leon CALL, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio United States of America († 1970)
• Baby Pool († 1970)

• Carlos Gaston STROBBE (25), Kachtem
• Anna Maria CELENS (74), Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Berend Geert Louwdijk (90)
• Cornelia Admiaal (76), Egmond Binnen
• Alida Johanna Groenenberg (77), Heiloo
• Albertina Petronella Gerarda ten Houte de Lange (85)
• Cornelia van Leeuwen (77), Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonse van WEZEL (66), Essen,Antwerpen,Belgie‎
• Antje Anema (84)
• Cornelia Admiraal (76), Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH)

• 1968 » José Offerman, Dominican baseball player and manager
• 1968 » Keith Jones, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1970 » David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer
• 1970 » Diana King, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1970 » José Porras, Costa Rican footballer and coach
• 1970 » Michael Jackson, Canadian actor
• 1970 » Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace
• 1971 » Carlos Atanes, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Tech N9ne, American musician, record producer, and actor

• 1965 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
• 1970 » Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1975 » Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
• 1978 » Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)

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. 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.
• June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• July 23 » Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 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.
• October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
• November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
• November 10 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

The temperature on November 8, 1970 was between 2.5 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.