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• Peter ter Maaten († 2009)
• Carola Vos, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1970)
• Pedro Havekes, Oeffelt

• Bastiaan Leendert den Boef (64), Voorschoten
• Anna, Maria Sense (84), Rheden
• Adrianus Luijkx (57), Bergen op Zoom
• Arendje,1891 Hemert van, (79), Haaften
• Adriana Cornelia Batenburg van (79), Oudenbosch
• Aaltje van Soeren (75), Nijkerkerveen
• Barbara Maria Riemens (84), Amersfoort (Amersfoort), Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Verhagen (80), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bauke van der Werf (61), Akkrum, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Christen Poulsen Christensen (95), Jetsmark Sogn, Hvetbo Herred, Hjørring Amt

• 1968 » Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer and manager
• 1969 » Billy Owens, American basketball player
• 1969 » Mary Lou McDonald, Irish politician
• 1969 » Wes Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 » Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor in Tamil cinema and race car driver
• 1971 » Artur Kohutek, Polish hurdler and soldier
• 1971 » Ethan Albright, American football player
• 1971 » Kim Grant, South African tennis player
• 1971 » Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer

• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Yi Un, Korean prince (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (b. 1939)
• 1976 » T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)

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. 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.
• January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
• April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
• September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
• November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.

The temperature on May 1, 1970 was between 3.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.