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• Johannes Antonius Adrianus Pijnenburg, Den Dungen († 1967)
• Tonnie Pijnenburg, Den Dungen
• Christelle GHYSELS
• Ingeborg van den Broek
• Valinda Ann Jaspers, Grundy County Memorial hospital, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1969)
• Ellen Leijten († 2009)
• Stéphane BROU, Paris-XIVème, 75114, Paris, Île-de-France, France († 1997)
• Janel Sue Beekman, Kandiyohi County, MN
• Melissa June STEINER, Homeville, West Miffliln, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania († 1969)

• Anthonie Hop (70), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonetta Joanna Adriana van Loon (53), Tilburg
• Clara Maria Cardoso Corrêa e Castro (22), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Batholomeus Heemskerk (83), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Henry (88), Canberra ACT Australia
• Zeggelink (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Blanche Chadwell (73), Smyth County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Bartholomeus Heemskerk (83), Hillegom, ZUI, Nederland
• * Leendert Verschoor (66), Voorburg
• Anke Rispens (62), Lekkum

• 1964 » Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
• 1964 » Jimmy Arias, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Nigel Redman, English rugby player
• 1966 » Eddie Olczyk, American ice hockey player, coach, and commentator
• 1967 » Mark Coyne, Australian rugby league player
• 1967 » Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish journalist, actress, and author
• 1968 » Arvind Kejriwal, Indian civil servant and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Delhi
• 1968 » Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
• 1968 » Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
• 1970 » Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist and sportscaster

• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
• 1978 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)

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. Ronald
14. Eric
15. Johan
16. Mark

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Cornelia
6. Anna
7. Jolanda
8. Petra
9. Elisabeth
10. Sandra
11. Jacqueline
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.
• April 23 » Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
• April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
• April 29 » After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
• June 2 » Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
• November 2 » Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
• December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

The temperature on August 16, 1967 was between 13.5 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.