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• Katrien Everaert, Lokeren
• NN Dijkstra, Utrecht († 1967)
• Randal Lee Douglas, Reseda, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Dina Jacoba de Man, Zevenhuizen († 2001)
• Ronald Willem de Klerk († 2007)
• Renate Sophia Heijstra, Bergen (N-H)
• Joost Jalving, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2020)
• Albert Pullen, Bruchterveld († 2020)

• Charlena van Dyke (71), Melvin, Osceola County, Iowa
• Cornelia van den Durpel (76), Vlissingen, Nederland
• Charlene van Dyk (71), Nelvin, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Rolden (79), Havelte
• Adriana Elkizabeth van der Meide(Meijde) (79), Sommelsdijk (ZH Nederland)
• Cornelia Maria Wilhelmina vn Zijl (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Jans van Dijk (87), St. Annaparochie
• Aaltje Sietses van der Heide (3), Haule
• Antonia Hendrika Mathilda van der Togt (74), 's Gravenhage
• Arie Elbert Bakkenes (82), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1965 » Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian cricketer
• 1965 » Marlee Matlin, American actress and producer
• 1965 » Reggie Miller, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 » Nick Denton, English journalist and businessman, founded Gawker Media
• 1967 » Michael Thomas, English footballer
• 1968 » Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1968 » Benoît Brunet, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1968 » Tim Salmon, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1969 » Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist

• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)

• 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 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
• May 27 » Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
• July 3 » The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.
• July 23 » Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
• September 1 » Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
• December 19 » Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.

The temperature on August 24, 1967 was between 12.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.