About the day » Thursday October 3, 1968Calender converter

• Mireille Johanna Maria de Beurs, Amsterdam
• Derek Lowe ALOW08.DER01, Cyprus († 1984)
• Frederic Antonius Johannes VAN WAESBERGHE, 't Veld († 1982)
• Mariëlle Carolien Momber, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Mariëlle Momber († 2009)
• Peter Smit
• Petrus Gijsbertus George Sutorius, Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands († 1998)
• Beverly Johannes Crider, Zapata, Zapata, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1972)
• Kris Gevers, Turnhout, 2300, Antwerpen, België

• Aaltje Dik (83), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Cora A. Bell (101), Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Christianus Hensen (79), Ter Apel, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Fokkema (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Eleonora Drognat Doeve (82), Den Haag Z-Holland
• Eltje Annes De Haas (71), Menaldum, Friesland, Nederland
• Douwe Bouwes Douma (52), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Frans De Munter (45), Heule
• donald godar SIMPSON (63), East Detroit Macomb County Michigan (USA)
• Bougien De Haan (86), Haren,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1966 » Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Chris Collingwood, English-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1967 » Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrator
• 1968 » Donald Sild, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1968 » Greg Foster, American basketball player and coach
• 1968 » Marko Rajamäki, Finnish footballer and manager
• 1968 » Paul Crichton, English footballer and manager
• 1969 » Garry Herbert, English rower and sportscaster
• 1969 » Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
• 1969 » Tetsuya, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (b. 1887)

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.
• June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• August 20 » Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
• October 14 » The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on October 3, 1968 was between 13.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.