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• Philip COOK, Prince Rupert, BC, Canada († 1970)
• Claudia Mansfeld, Houten († 2007)
• Rogier van den Hurk († 2001)
• Paul Fisher († 2004)
• Chantal Yvette Chantal Rooze
• Steve Gerard Georgette Verbeeke, Brugge († 1998)
• Eric Peterson († 2003)
• Kim Michael Charles Riordon († 2004)
• Jan Herm Hakkers († 2020)
• Rogier Johannes Maria van den Hurk, Tilburg († 2001)

• Adrianus Wilhelmus Houtman (48)
• Antoinetta Johanna Constantia Maria de Beer (64), Tilburg, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Clarence van Houten (82), Cadillac/Michigan/Amerika
• Anna Nienhuis (77), Loenen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Nunen (82), Eindhoven
• Antonie Jan Jacobus Geel (89), Ermelo
• Arthur Wegner (70)
• Albertus Antonius van den Heiligenberg (76), Utrecht
• Blanche Hulbert (79)
• Bernardus Johannes Theodorus Peters (83)

• 1968 » Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster
• 1969 » Anne Heche, American actress
• 1969 » Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Karen Bernstein, Canadian voice actress
• 1969 » Stacy London, American journalist and author
• 1970 » Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Octavia Spencer, American actress and author
• 1970 » Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Marco Cappato, Italian politician
• 1971 » Stefano Baldini, Italian runner

• 1957 » Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)

• 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 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• July 3 » The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
• September 5 » Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
• October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.

The temperature on May 25, 1970 was between 9.2 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.