About the day » Sunday October 20, 1968Calender converter

• Willem H Overbeek, markelo
• Annelies Knoester, Den Haag († 1979)
• Remi Ricciarelli, Bondy, Seine-Saint- Denis, Frankrijk
• Joanne Maree Wilts, Australië († 1969)

• Aagje Tuinder (86)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Zaal (76), Hoorn
• Anna Maria VROEMEN (85), Maastricht (NL/LI)
• Anton Fallaux (88), Leiden
• Catharina Geertruida Anna GEUZE (78), Bergen Op Zoom (N. Br. Nl)
• Adriana Kooman (82), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Steenge (86), Sappemeer
• Dirk Cornelis van Delft (90), Lienden, Nederland
• Abraham Coronel (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina G.A. Geuze (78)

• 1966 » Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant Islamist († 2006)
• 1966 » Allan Donald, South African cricketer and coach
• 1966 » Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer, founded Slackware
• 1967 » Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
• 1967 » Kerrod Walters, Australian rugby league player
• 1967 » Kevin Walters, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1968 » Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
• 1969 » Juan González, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1969 » Labros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
• 1969 » Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Bud Flanagan, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1972 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Steve Gaines, American guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1978 » Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Johan
6. Hendrik
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. John
14. Patrick
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Elisabeth
10. Yvonne
11. Jolanda
12. Karin
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• 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 12.7 million citizens.
• March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
• May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
• July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• October 22 » Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

The temperature on October 20, 1968 was between 5.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.