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• Maria Cecilia Maas, het St. Lidwina ziekenhuis in den Helder († 2018)
• Johnny van der Geld, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Wilco van Dam, Groet, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Carla Jacqueline Van Walleghem, Roeselare († 1968)
• Monique Habets, Hulsberg, Nuth († 1988)

• Anna van Brummelen (75), Langbroek
• Albert August Rosenwinkel (81)
• Cora B. larroway│Laraway (92), Utica/Oneida NY
• Angelica Maes (86), Temse
• Alida Johanna Wubben (80), Boekel
• BregTje Cornelsdr van Duijvenbode (80), Katwijk
• Albertina Eeman (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Keppel (78), Nrd-Scharwoude
• Alfred Peter Ebbenhorst (2)
• Antonius Boots (80), Maasbree

• 1965 » Hazel Irvine, Scottish sportscaster and journalist
• 1966 » Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
• 1966 » Zola Budd, South African runner
• 1967 » Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist († 2012)
• 1967 » Philip Treacy, Irish milliner, hat designer
• 1968 » Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
• 1968 » Steve Sedgley, English footballer and manager
• 1969 » John Baird, Canadian politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1969 » Siri Lindley, American triathlete and coach

• 1955 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)

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 18 » Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• September 30 » The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched.
• November 17 » Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
• December 17 » Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.

The temperature on May 26, 1967 was between 7.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.