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• Suzette Russell Vernone Heflin, Big Spring, Howard, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Serva Christine Foppes, Langedijk († 1973)
• Harm Jan Haayer, Zuidlaren,Gemeente Tynaarlo,Drenthe,Nederland († 1993)
• Gabriele († 1970)
• Viviane BIELEN, St. Jansziekenhuis, Weg naar AS,Genk,Limburg,Belgie († 1971)
• Gabriele Hilbig († 1970)
• Arie Dirk van Doorn († 1970)
• Annechien Elizabeth van der Heide
• Jolanda Koemans († 2016)
• Renald Robert Edelbroek, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Daniel Jacob Engle (80), Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, California, United States of America
• Augusta Eunice Wettling (92), Penn Yan, Yates, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Tulp (73), Rotterdam
• Adriana Ida van Giersbergen (79), Tilburg
• Don Calvin Tennyson (21), Jefferson County, Alabama
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Bartels (77), Rijnsaterwoude, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriane Johanne Georgine Muller (69)
• Anna Gunhild Broberg (83), Bronäs, Norra Härene (R)
• Carlisse Paulina Heinicke (11), Amsterdam
• Alida Scholman (61), Zeist, Provincie Utrecht, Nederland

• 1966 » Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 » Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
• 1968 » Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author
• 1969 » Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor († 2019)
• 1970 » Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1972 » Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 » Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast

• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Jeroen
8. Marcel
9. Pieter
10. Michael
11. Hendrik
12. Patrick
13. Marco
14. Mark
15. Willem
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Ingrid
8. Linda
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 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
• March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
• 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.

The temperature on May 22, 1970 was between 3.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.