About the day » Monday March 23, 1970Calender converter

• Rob Johannes Casparus van Balen, Hintham, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bradley De Cock († 1989)
• Marja van de Riet
• Todd Marlyn Stubbe, Fort Leonard Wood, Pulaski County, Missouri († 2018)
• Philip Jon Riepma, Cumberland, Cumberland County, North Carolina († 2003)
• Diederik Eugene van Westhreenen
• Maik Metelmann († 2013)
• Hennie Meijer
• Patrick Meewisse, Enkhuizen, Nhl, NL († 1987)
• Bert Van Anderlecht

• Christiaan Johannes Putter (66), Rooikoppies, Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
• Albertine Brens (61)
• Ann Agnes Fowlds (81), Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• Adrianus Bastiaan van de Wetering (59), Delft
• Burt Foote (83), Anna, Shelby County, Ohio
• Christine von Wenckheim (95), Asheville, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Gijsbertus van Isselt (67), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Blanche Willis (71), Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina
• Christiaan Werken (91), Brakel
• Bonaventura Cloostermans (73), Schoten, Antwerpen, België

• 1968 » Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer and actor
• 1968 » Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1968 » Mike Atherton, English cricketer and journalist
• 1968 » Pierre Palmade, French actor and screenwriter
• 1971 » Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 » Gail Porter, Scottish model and television host
• 1971 » Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler
• 1971 » Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model
• 1972 » Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
• 1972 » Jonas Björkman, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player and coach

• 1961 » Albert Bloch, American painter and educator (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Jack Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1972 » Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)

• 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 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• May 9 » Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
• 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 18 » U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
• December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

The temperature on March 23, 1970 was between -1.6 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.