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• Tina Marie FLEEGE, Menominee, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States († 1990)
• Cornelis Ruwiel, Amsterdam
• Marinus Johannes van Beek, Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Jacqueline Wilhelmina Maria van Dongen, Raamsdonk
• Michiel CHERET († 2002)

• Arnold Foote DNA28 JAMAICA - link to Jennifer Coke, Allen, Robinson, Sav la mar - Mcdonald and Potts (79), Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica
• Adriana Maria Verboord (48), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aline Van Hemelen (81), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, BelgiÁe
• Antje Faber (83), Zuidhorn
• Anna Maria Van Oorschot (79), Helmond
• Agnes Anna Elisabeth van der Schoot (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Henriëtta van Laarhoven (75), Tilburg
• Alida Verkerk (73), Gouda,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Jelles Berkepas (87)
• Anna Maria van Oorschot (79), Helmond

• 1966 » Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1967 » John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
• 1967 » Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
• 1967 » Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Chris Broussard, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 » Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
• 1968 » Mayumi Ozaki, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 » Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican-American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach

• 1959 » Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
• 1963 » Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882)
• 1969 » Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 » Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
• 1978 » Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)

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.
• February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
• July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
• July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
• August 2 » An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
• September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
• November 8 » The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.

The temperature on October 28, 1968 was between 6.0 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.