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• Eduardo de Arruda Borelli, Santos, São Paulo, Brasil († 1988)
• Olav Pieter Kraaijenoord, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland († 2020)
• Sean van der Plaat († 1988)
• Thomas Calvin Taylor
• elisabeth antonia jacoba (marjel) janssen, helden-beringe
• Michael Willem Pieter Dekker († 1991)

• Adriana Henriette Memidjo Pellencaoë (83), Delden
• Anna Maria Baggen (80), Heerlen, Nederland
• Elfrieda Charlotta Westendorf (83)
• Alyda Anna Maria Terwijn (88), Amsterdam
• Augustinus Joannes Leonardus [smid] Stalpers (85), Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernard Huisman (73), Tubbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aartje de With (78), Hei-en Boeicop, Nederland
• Angenita Wilhelmina Anna Maria Gimberg (63), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Clinton Elbridge Kaler (87), Rockland, Knox, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Bessie L Inklebarger (74)

• 1966 » Ken Clark, American football player († 2013)
• 1966 » Mohammed Ghazy Al-Akhras, Iraqi journalist and author
• 1966 » Tory Burch, American fashion designer and philanthropist
• 1967 » Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano and actress
• 1967 » Eric Stefani, American keyboard player and composer
• 1968 » Minoru Suzuki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1968 » Steve Georgallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Geoff Toovey, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1969 » Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner

• 1956 » Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1957 » J. R. Williams, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888)
• 1961 » Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1963 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
• 1968 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1975 » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1979 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (b. 1898)

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.
• January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
• April 10 » The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
• May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
• December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
• December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

The temperature on June 17, 1968 was between 11.9 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.