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• Shawn Gott <K PqObFgctARBu>1, Arkansas ql († 2013)
• Cinderella Angelique Louter, Nijmegen (Gelderland) Nederland
• Markus Jan van der Heiden, Oxford, Engeland († 2001)
• Johannes Henricus Hermanus Münninghoff, Norg († 1992)
• Hendrik de Jong, Hei-en Boeicop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)

• Bouwe Olij (81), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Betsey Savage (76)
• Arend Jacob Loch (67)
• Anthonius Hendrikus Zandvliet (61), Rotterdam
• Antonia Schwarz
• Adriana Molendijk (71), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Jacob Loch (67), Haaften, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albert Schuitema (74), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Henriette Elisabeth Maria de Jongh (91), Eindhoven (N.B.)
• Angenithus Adrianus Couwenberg (71), Bergen op zoom

• 1968 » Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1968 » Traci Lords, American actress and singer
• 1969 » Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Jun Falkenstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1971 » Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 » Reidar Horghagen, Norwegian drummer
• 1971 » Thomas Piketty, French economist
• 1972 » Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1972 » Peter Dubovský, Czech-Slovak footballer († 2000)

• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884)
• 1978 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

• 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 28 » An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
• May 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
• June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
• November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
• November 21 » Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.

The temperature on May 7, 1970 was between 11.5 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.