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• Cornelia van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• maria (mariam) bruijnen, helden-beringe
• Johan Jansema, weiwerd († 1972)
• Cornelia van Duijn, Leiden († 1969)
• Franciscus Wilhelmus Johannes Petrus de Bie, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Betty Marie White (43), Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
• Andreas Dirkx (66), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Smits (78), Oudenbosch
• Adrianus Kooijman (76)
• Emile Bauwens (82), Brugge
• Feitze Kornelisz Boersma (81)
• Bertha Bernarda Louisa Brandenburg (80), Amsterdam
• Andries Kooijman (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Feitze Boersma (81), -
• Arnold Abraham Louis Felix van DULLEMEN (19), Utrecht

• 1965 » Claude Bourbonnais, Canadian race car driver
• 1965 » Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician
• 1965 » Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 » Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1966 » Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1967 » Janez Lapajne, Slovenian director and producer
• 1967 » John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator († 2012)
• 1970 » Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1962 » Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1892)
• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1969 » Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1980 » V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)

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. Karin
12. Jolanda
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 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
• 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.
• April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

The temperature on June 24, 1968 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.