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• Yolanda Bianca Zandijk, Rotterdam
• Willem Lodewijk Agter, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 1992)
• Willem Lodewijk Agter, Gemeente Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Paul Cameron Hassan, Geelong, Australië († 1986)
• Ronald ter Heerd, Heeswijk Dinther († 2020)
• Bernd Mobach, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Cornelia Adriana Verheijdt (82), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cesar BRION (51), Wijtschate,8953,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie
• Arie Minnee (78), Leiden
• Antonius Franciscus Maria van de Put (74), Tilburg
• Auke De Blaauw (85)
• Delmont McALLISTER (48), Kanab, Kane County, Utah, United States of America
• Catharina Judith (Toos) van Heek (77), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertha Berendina (Alie) Schut (40), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Francisca Hoffschlag (66), Utrecht
• Alphonsus Petrus Josephus Marie van der Ouderaa (82), Bergen op Zoom

• 1969 » Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
• 1969 » Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager († 2019)
• 1969 » Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
• 1970 » DMX, American rapper and actor
• 1970 » Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1970 » Jonathan Yeo, English painter
• 1970 » Lucious Harris, American basketball player
• 1970 » Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
• 1970 » Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
• 1971 » Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist

• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)

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. Sandra
3. Monique
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. 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 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
• May 9 » Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• September 5 » Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
• September 19 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
• 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.

The temperature on December 18, 1970 was between 3.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.