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• Sandra Cornelia Anna VAN DEN BURG, noordwijkerhout, Nederland († 1997)
• Cornelis Willem Pieter Francken, Rijnsburg († 2019)
• Sandra Christina Beumer
• "Maureen"Yvonne Wilma Veldhuis, Nijverdal

• Adriana Petronella van der Sloot (65), IJmuiden
• Catharina VAN KOOTEN (86), Rotterdam
• Catharina Groeneveld (92), Zwijndrecht, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• CHRISTEL VAN HOYWEGEN (0)
• Catharina van Kooten (86), Rotterdam
• Catharina Maria Kors (84)
• Celestina De Jonghe (76), Rupelmonde
• Andreas Linssen (71), Steyl,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alberdina Meilink (77), Warnsveld, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Charles GOLDSMITH (85), Renney Lodge, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire

• 1960 » Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Terje Gewelt, Norwegian bassist
• 1960 » Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 » Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
• 1963 » Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
• 1964 » Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer

• 1959 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• 1969 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1970 » Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1971 » J.I. Rodale, American author and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)

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. Elisabeth

• 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.
• April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
• April 13 » An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
• April 22 » The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
• September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
• 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 June 8, 1970 was between 16.3 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 23.1 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.