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• Gerdi Jeannette Dam († 1975)
• Paul Johannes Stephanus Marx († 1991)
• "Jaap" de Groot, Arnhem († 2018)
• Karin Ina Middelkoop, Leiden († 2016)
• Renée Agnies van Notten, Gorinchem († 2018)
• Steven Matthew Worsley, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California († 1969)
• Vico Junior Verstege († 1998)
• Adriana Maria Johanna van Gils, Den Bosch
• Matthieu van Bokkum († 2014)

• Aaltje Toornbeek (74), Amsterdam
• Albertus van de Meerakker (82), Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Cornelia LAMMENS (68), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Antoon Nicolaas van Steenis (68), Utrecht (NL)
• (3e) Albertus van de Meerakker (82), Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Petronella Louise Jansen (83), Apeldoorn
• Egbert Bentum (83), Kiel-Windeweer
• Cornelia Fioole (83), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Pieters Stallinga (78), Nes
• Anne Stallinga (78), Dokkum

• 1965 » Krist Novoselic, American bass player, songwriter, author, and activist
• 1965 » Tanel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic
• 1966 » Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
• 1966 » Scott Reeves, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1966 » Thurman Thomas, American football player
• 1967 » Doug Brocail, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 » Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, British politician
• 1968 » Ralph Tresvant, American singer and producer
• 1969 » David Boreanaz, American actor
• 1969 » Tucker Carlson, American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller

• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)
• 1979 » A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)

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. 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 14 » Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
• January 27 » Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
• 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.
• May 26 » The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
• October 21 » The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
• December 13 » Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.

The temperature on May 16, 1967 was between 7.6 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.