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• Therese Tjeerdje Wilhelmina Maria Jansen, Nijmegen
• Jannette Hagting, Groningen († 2002)
• François de Cressac de Soleuvre († 1968)
• Maria Johanna van de Sloot, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Linda Blommaert, Voorburg, Nederland († 2002)
• ADRIANUS JOHANNES MARIA MAAT, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Hooven van den (66), Helvoirt
• Dirkje Verbeek (90), Zeist
• Catharina Maria van der Kloet (82)
• Barteld De Jonge (72), Hoorn
• Barend van den Heuvel (70), Amersfoort
• Clasina Hendrika Veeman (71), Amersfoort
• Clarissa Postgens (78), Kleve (D)
• Anna Maria van 't Klooster (80), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van der Laan (83)
• Dientje de Graaf (54), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands

• 1966 » Tobias Ellwood, American-English captain and politician
• 1967 » Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
• 1967 » Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1967 » Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• 1968 » Thorsten Boer, German footballer and manager
• 1969 » Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor and politician
• 1969 » Stuart Williams, Nevisian cricketer
• 1970 » Aleksandar Đurić, Bosnian footballer
• 1970 » Charles Mesure, English-Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1970 » Toby Perkins, English businessman and politician

• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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 6 » Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
• July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
• December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
• December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
• December 26 » The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.

The temperature on August 12, 1968 was between 11.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.