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• Infant Todd ? *****, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• David Eugene Pipher Jr, Endicott, Broome, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Ellen Maria (Ellen) Voortman, Enschede, 7500, Nederland († 2006)
• NN Hobers, Nieuw-Amsterdam († 1968)
• Jeroen Hoogland, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1996)
• Esther Maria Cornelia (Isaney) van Hall, Veldhoven
• Dorothea Josefina Maria Manders, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1968)
• Jeroen Hoogland, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1996)
• Gea Scholing, Hoogeveen († 1968)

• Catherine Katie Fitzell (79), Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Polak (74), Rotterdam
• Alida Schoutsen (77)
• Arie KIELE (81), Den Haag
• Aalt Braambosch (82), Hulshorst
• Bendkia "Oma" "Loressa" ZERBIB (84), Paris (ancienne Seine), France
• Arie Jan Kreuk (71), Ijsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Peek (80), Schalkwijk
• Adrianus Cornelis Josephus van Iersel (81), Eindhoven
• Cecil Fred Colley (88), Yeovil, Somerset. England

• 1964 » Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor († 2009)
• 1965 » Micky Ward, American boxer
• 1965 » Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 » Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 » Steve Olin, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1967 » Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
• 1967 » Nick Green, Australian rower
• 1968 » Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
• 1968 » Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1971 » Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)

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 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
• February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• April 11 » Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• October 14 » Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on October 4, 1968 was between 15.0 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.