About the day » Tuesday February 20, 1968Calender converter

• Idelma Mercelina
• Kevin Paul HIMES, St Catharines Ontario Canada († 1968)
• Doodgeboren dochter Dooper, Workum, Fr, Nederland († 1968)
• Eduard Martinus Hendrikus Edelbroek, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Keith Velders, Borough of Bronx,Bronx,New York,Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Daren Wayne Todd ****, Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Barend Peter BRINK, Zuid-Afrika († 2002)
• Thomas Vernon Todd ? *****, Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Berthus Heezen, Rotterdam († 2022)

• Adriana Lampers (88), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anthony Asquith (65), St Marylebone, London, England
• Anna Catharina Leijten (85), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Arnoldus Adolf Westerhuis (62), Deventer
• Aagje Claasdr de Groot (84), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Petrus Bruggeling (63), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Carl William "Willy"Gustav Schaller (76), Amery, Polk County, WI
• Anna wiersum (84), Winschoten
• Adrianus de Vos (72), Rotterdam
• Burchard Hermann Jacobus Scholte (67), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
• 1967 » Andrew Shue, American actor and activist, founded Do Something
• 1967 » David Herman, American comedian and actor
• 1967 » Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1994)
• 1967 » Lili Taylor, American actress
• 1967 » Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier
• 1967 » Tom Waddle, American football player and sportscaster
• 1969 » Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete
• 1969 » Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager

• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (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. Elisabeth
9. Esther
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.
• January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
• June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
• 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 February 20, 1968 was between -1.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.