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• Miriam Zillesen, Amsterdam († 1978)
• Maya Yazbek
• Rinke Steenbergen, Apeldoorn
• Manfred Pleiter
• Gerrit Jan van de Ruit, Papendrecht († 2022)
• Marco Fransiscus De Groot, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Carl Lee NORTH († 1971)

• Alice Agnes Maria Martens (60), Sterksel, NL
• Adriana van den Broek (91), Middelbeers, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Hubertus (Tonny) OVERHOF (42), Maastricht (NL/LI)
• Catharina Maria de Kwant (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ada ROLLASON (HADLEY) (76)
• Catharine Loretta DRAUGHT (75), Attleboro (Mass.USA) c
• Bernardus Gerardus Franciscus Jansen (87), 's-Gravenhage
• Agatha Johanna van der Wel (80)
• Anna Hartsuijker (86), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adele Beers (66), Emmerich (D)

• 1968 » Ken Marino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Kristina Keneally, American-Australian politician, 42nd Premier of New South Wales
• 1969 » Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and singer
• 1969 » Michael Bates, American sprinter and football player
• 1969 » Nayan Mongia, Indian cricketer
• 1969 » Richard Hammond, English journalist and producer
• 1969 » Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
• 1970 » Tyson Beckford, American model and actor
• 1971 » Karen Pickering, English swimmer
• 1972 » Alyssa Milano, American actress and television personality

• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 1986 » V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1987 » August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1988 » Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)

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.
• April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• May 31 » The 7.9 M_w  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
• September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
• November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
• December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.

The temperature on December 19, 1970 was between 6.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.