About the day » Thursday August 17, 1967Calender converter

• Janna Jacoba (Janet) Hofman
• Pierre Andre de Klerk, Potgietersrust, Zuid-Afrika († 1995)
• Ellis Frederique Stroink, Groningen
• Jane Margriet Stroink, Groningen
• David Menne († 1995)
• Koos Manders, Cuyk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1977)
• Dominique Johannes Rijnbout, Utrecht
• Mark Lahaye, Nijvel († 1994)
• Ankie Musters, Bergen op Zoom

• Augusta Josephina de Coeyer (77), South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana de Koning (73)
• Alke Huizing (57)
• Anke Berends de Groot (57)
• Andries Smit (81), Opperdoes
• Annigje Postma (92), Amersfoort
• adrianus peeters (75)
• Aagje Muller (74), Den Helder, Nederland
• Arnoldus Oosterholt (73), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Bleek (79), Gilze en Rijen

• 1965 » Dottie Pepper, American golfer
• 1965 » Steve Gorman, American drummer
• 1966 » Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 » Jüri Luik, Estonian politician and diplomat, 18th Estonian Minister of Defense
• 1966 » Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder and stuntman
• 1967 » Michael Preetz, German footballer and manager
• 1968 » Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1968 » Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Helen McCrory, English actress
• 1969 » Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach

• 1958 » Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)

• 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 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
• September 11 » China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La, Sikkim, India, which resulted a military clashes.
• October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
• 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.
• November 19 » The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• December 6 » Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.

The temperature on August 17, 1967 was between 12.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.