About the day » Wednesday August 16, 1967Calender converter

• Valinda Ann Jaspers, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1969)
• Janel Sue Beekman, Kandiyohi County, MN
• Melissa June STEINER, Homeville, West Miffliln, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania († 1969)
• Johannes Antonius Adrianus Pijnenburg, Den Dungen († 1967)
• Anthony Sherrin Whittaker († 1987)
• Christelle GHYSELS
• Tonnie Pijnenburg, Den Dungen
• Stéphane BROU, Paris-XIVème, 75114, Paris, Île-de-France, France († 1997)
• Ingeborg van den Broek

• Brandina Veldhuizen (68), Ede {GE}
• Anaïse Adèle CLEMENT (71), Blankenberge, 8370, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Camille Hoefnagels (71), Clinge (NL)
• Cornelis Antoon de Grauw (69), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Langeveld (81), De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout
• Catharina Konings (89), Breda
• Ann Henry (88), Canberra ACT Australia
• Arthur Thomas West (61), Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
• Anthonie van den Brink (63), Bennekom
• Ada Blanche Chadwell (73), Smyth County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten

• 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)

• 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 2 » Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.
• June 23 » Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
• July 1 » Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
• August 8 » The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
• August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 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.

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.