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• Jeroen Maria van Dijk
• Emil Dietrich Schulte († 2007)
• Hermanus Bernardus Franciscus Küller, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Mary Margaretha Reijerdr Vonk, Eindhoven, Nederland († 2017)
• Sandra Trappers, Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2008)
• Irin Mulder, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1999)
• Robby Boon, Haarlemmermeer
• Alain Hilgert, Sint-Niklaas († 1978)
• Jan de Haan, Harkema, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 2014)
• Marcel Rijser, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1968)

• Carlos da Costa Pereira (76)
• Andreis Petrus Blignault (79), Franschoek
• Anthonie Absalon François Kruijsse (55), Vlissingen
• Adriana Teresia de Veer (75), Tilburg
• Cornelia van de Goorbergh (46), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Hamers (59), Den Bosch
• Cornelis Dirk van Dijk (61), Noordeloos, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Absalom Francois Kruijsse (55), Vlissingen
• Alexander Aleidus Maria Slag (64), Enschede
• Adriana Teresia de Veer (75), Tilburg NB Netherlands

• 1964 » Sherry Hawco, Canadian gymnast († 1991)
• 1965 » Danny Lee, Australian rugby league player
• 1965 » Michael Bay, American director and producer
• 1966 » Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and actor
• 1966 » Quorthon, Swedish guitarist and songwriter († 2004)
• 1968 » Giuseppe Signori, Italian footballer
• 1968 » Wu'erkaixi, Chinese journalist and activist
• 1969 » David Douillet, French martial artist and politician
• 1969 » Vasily Kudinov, Russian handball player († 2017)
• 1970 » Dominic Purcell, English-born Irish-Australian actor and producer

• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1972 » Friday Hassler, American race car driver (b. 1935)
• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Marcel
8. Richard
9. Erik
10. Cornelis
11. Gerrit
12. Paul
13. Eric
14. Ronald
15. Johan
16. Mark

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Cornelia
6. Anna
7. Jolanda
8. Petra
9. Elisabeth
10. Jacqueline
11. Sandra
12. Karin
13. Catharina
14. Wilhelmina
15. Yvonne
16. Anita

• 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 12.5 million citizens.
• June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
• August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• October 18 » The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• November 15 » The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
• December 6 » Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.

The temperature on February 17, 1967 was between 0.8 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.