About the day » Wednesday August 2, 1967Calender converter

• Paul SMITH († 1967)
• Harrie Verhoeven, Luyksgestel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• N.n. Benningshoff, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)

• Cornelis Kerkhof (40), Culemborg, Nederland
• Alida_Petronella Boon (68), Baarn
• Archie Pollard (77), Dalton.N.S.W. Australia
• Bernardus Hendrikus Nicolasen (58)
• Catharina Jak (66), Zaandam
• alberta pieternella vrees van nahuijs (77), rotterdam
• Aafke Jemkes BLOEM (62), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Antje Visser (82), Sint-Nicolaasga, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Boudewijn van de Ruit (80), Rotterdam
• Abraham Daniel Pickering (78), Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname

• 1965 » Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1965 » Joe Hockey, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Treasurer of Australia
• 1966 » Grainne Leahy, Irish cricketer
• 1966 » Takashi Iizuka, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 » Tim Wakefield, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1967 » Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter and producer
• 1968 » Stefan Effenberg, German footballer and sportscaster
• 1969 » Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player
• 1969 » Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1963 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
• 1972 » Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Paul Goodman, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1911)
• 1973 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1974 » Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1976 » László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (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.
• January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
• March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• June 26 » Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• July 29 » During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
• November 9 » Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• November 9 » The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.

The temperature on August 2, 1967 was between 16.4 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 20.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.