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• Peter Francis (Peter) BEKX, Opotiki (NZ) († 2008)
• Jan Nijland, Aadorp († 2007)
• Timothy Michael Mc Queary, Indio, CA, U.S.A († 1971)
• Curtis James Hansen, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 2008)
• Peter Hoefnagels († 2008)
• irene lenders, helden-dorp
• Peter BEKX, Opotiki (New Zealand) († 2008)
• richard LAGEWEG († 1997)
• manon houben, nijmegen
• Dana Denice Dykstra

• Arnolda Anna van den Hurk (77), Eindhoven
• Berend Douwes (83), Steenbergen, Roden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Nijdam (82), Oldeboorn, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Martens (85), Horst, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Sikkink (81), Amsterdam
• Antje Dekker (de Ligt) (76), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Alice Maude Hardwick (84), aged 84 years, reg'd Gundagai, NSW, AU
• Alide Alexandrine Theonie Jeannette Marie Mignot (85), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfons Joseph Peusens (53), Geleen
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus van den Boer (55), Breda

• 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)

• 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 13 » An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
• April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• August 23 » Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
• September 30 » Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

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.