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• Sabrina Demeulenaere, Kortrijk († 2001)
• Marco Abelskamp († 1998)
• Johannes Marie Baggen, Sittard († 2008)

• Camiel Nollet (89), Knokke, West-Vlaanderen (B)
• Bridget McMahon (73), Loughmacrory, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Arie van Driel (93)
• clara sophie HUBLE (83), Wingles (F-62)
• Christina Brummel (87)
• Adriaan Gommers (65), merksem
• Todd ****, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Brummel (87), Grand Rapids (Michigan), U.S.A
• Adrianus van den Boom (74), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoine SPILLEBEEN (55), Brugge, Belgique

• 1967 » Deion Sanders, American football and baseball player
• 1968 » Eric Bana, Australian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Gillian Anderson, American-British actress, activist and writer
• 1968 » McG, American director and producer
• 1968 » Sam Fogarino, American drummer
• 1969 » Troy Percival, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 » Chris Cuomo, American lawyer and journalist
• 1970 » Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor and director

• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)

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.
• January 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
• March 28 » An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
• April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
• April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
• November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

The temperature on August 9, 1970 was between 12.3 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.