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• Stephanie Rae LARSON, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Stella Jacoba Maria Huiberts, Wognum († 1970)
• Birga Keune († 2015)
• Estevão Gesser, Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1970)
• Jeffrey Sungkono, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia († 2018)
• Cornelis Theodorus Bernardus Maria Smits, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Peter Schenkels

• Cleopha Elizabeth Schramm (54)
• Cornelia Wesdorp (59), Zierikzee
• Cornelis Janz. KIESLING (83), Hippolytushoef/Wieringen (NL/NH)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Wijnmalen (82), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Hulstein (66)
• Alke van Dijk (78)
• Cornelia Maria Cooper (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Maria Cooper (83), Amsterdam
• Catharina van Tongeren (83), Leiden
• Alfred George Johnson (75)

• 1967 » Neil Gorsuch, American judge
• 1968 » Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
• 1971 » Alex Griffin, English bass player
• 1971 » Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1971 » Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor

• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1977 » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1977 » Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

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.
• March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
• April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
• May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
• November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
• November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.

The temperature on August 29, 1970 was between 9.8 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.