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• Bernardus Theodorus Kosse († 1983)
• Smit, Zkh. Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1970)
• Jan Godeke († 1996)
• Gerritdina hendrika Koopman, holten
• Kris Vleugels, Geel (B), België († 2002)
• Bregje Huskens, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• NN Smit, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Martin Dominic Padilla, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Berend Jacob te Velde (63), Ter Apelkanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Does (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Geertruida Maria Heere (76), ,, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Albertus Schouws (76), Heemskerk
• Anna Maria Josephina Diederen (79), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernardus Hubertus Maria Vlekke (80), Waalre
• Adrianus de Rijk (50), Utrecht
• Adrianus de Rijk (50), Utrecht
• Auguste Franciscus Segaert (82), Zedelgem
• Anna Maria Josephina (Sophie) DIEDEREN (79), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland

• 1966 » Moisés Alou, American baseball player
• 1967 » Katy Clark, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1968 » Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo-Albanian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
• 1970 » Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
• 1970 » Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
• 1970 » Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1971 » Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
• 1973 » Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player
• 1973 » Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer († 2013)
• 1973 » Paul Rauhihi, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1957 » Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1904)
• 1958 » Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1867)
• 1969 » Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1971 » Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
• 1978 » James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1979 » Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Ross Martin, American actor and director (b. 1920)

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 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
• April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
• September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
• September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
• 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 July 3, 1970 was between 12.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.