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• Levenloos geboren kind Kuijlenburg, Mijdrecht († 1968)
• Hester Ilona NOLTHUIS († 1996)
• Nancy GONAY († 1977)
• Gregory Hannes FISH, Bismark († 1969)
• Kathleen Ann Reese, Taft, Kern, California, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Gregory Hannes Fish, Bismark († 1969)

• Archie W. Thames (76)
• Adriana van Dieijen (66)
• Antje NOORDHUIS (77), Adorp Groningen Netherlands
• Wilmsen Joanna Maria (86), Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Angus Bede Sharkey (59), Macksville, New South Wales, Australia
• Adrianus Teunis (Teunis) van den Wijngaard (55), Leerdam
• Anna Alida Bolmer (72), Groningen
• Arend Jan Schreurs (65), Enschede
• Arnold Raymond Diekema (21), Vietnam
• Archer JAGO (81)

• 1967 » Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach
• 1967 » Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1967 » Steve Deacon, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 » Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union player
• 1968 » Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
• 1968 » Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 1968 » Mark Soden, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 » Robert Denmark, English runner and coach
• 1969 » Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
• 1969 » Olivier Beretta, Monégasque race car driver

• 1958 » Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• 1972 » Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1974 » notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
• 1976 » André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)

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.
• April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
• 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.
• July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
• September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
• November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.

The temperature on November 23, 1968 was between 2.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.