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• Peter Hoefnagels († 2008)
• Peter Francis Bekx, Opotiki, New Zealand († 2008)
• manon houben, nijmegen
• Jan Cornelis Eelman, Oosterend († 1996)
• Peter Francis (Peter) BEKX, Opotiki (NZ) († 2008)
• Curtis James Hansen, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 2008)
• Peter BEKX, Opotiki (New Zealand) († 2008)
• Timothy Michael Mc Queary, Indio, CA, U.S.A († 1971)
• Ilse HURKMANS († 2008)
• Jan Cornelis Eelman, Oosterend (Texel, NH) († 1996)

• Cornelis Hosmus (78), Renkum
• Christiaan Kappers (80), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Cornelis Leijten (90), Breda
• Anna Grodotzki (68), Goor, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Catharina Nijdam (82), Oldeboorn, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Alexandrine Théonie Jeannette Marie Mignot (85), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Leijten (90), Breda (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Cornelia Catharina van Lynschooten (79)
• Catharina Willems Nijdam (82)
• Alfons Joseph Peusens (53), Geleen

• 1969 » Brad Anderson, American wrestler
• 1969 » Clinton McKinnon, American saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1969 » Leavander Johnson, American boxer († 2005)
• 1969 » Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Nick Love, English director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Ryuji Kato, Japanese soccer player
• 1969 » Taro Goto, Japanese soccer player
• 1970 » Adam Haslett, American author and academic
• 1970 » Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican-American actor

• 1965 » John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Fritz Gause, German historian and author (b. 1893)

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.
• March 21 » The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
• April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
• April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
• September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
• November 21 » Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
• December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.

The temperature on December 24, 1970 was between -6.9 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.