About the day » Wednesday September 4, 1968Calender converter

• Trientje van der Velde († 1988)
• Fred Baas, Rotterdam († 1987)
• Teunis Spits
• Meryem Taif, Casablanca, Marokko († 1969)
• Deborah Annette Bohnen († 1969)
• Deborah Annette Bohnen, Driebergen († 1969)
• Marten Hendrik (Marco) van Beek, Oldemarkt († 2011)

• Alphonsus Josephus van Hout (57), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Cornelia Anna Bogmans Bogmans (84), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Biem Bakker (87), Haarlem
• Christiaan Hogervorst (65), Delft
• Cornelia Anna Bogmans (84), Den Helder
• CORNELIA ANNA ALIDA WINTERINK (78), AMSTERDAM
• Amélia Castro Ferreira (68)
• Cornelius Dutmer (67), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Biem Bakker (87), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Gelens (57), Rotterdam

• 1966 » Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter († 1991)
• 1967 » Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer and accountant
• 1967 » Dezső Szabó, Hungarian decathlete
• 1968 » John DiMaggio, American voice actor
• 1968 » Mike Piazza, American baseball player
• 1969 » Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgian academic and politician, 4th President of Georgia
• 1969 » Inga Tuigamala, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 » Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist († 2013)
• 1969 » Sasha, Welsh DJ and producer

• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1977 » E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter (b. 1900)

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. Patrick
14. John
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.
• February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• March 31 » American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
• April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
• 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.

The temperature on September 4, 1968 was between 10.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.