About the day » Saturday September 16, 1967Calender converter

• Michel Gerardus BECKERMAN, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Roeland Sebastiaan Weetink, Arnhem († 2001)
• Donnie Uhlenhopp, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1967)
• Denise Dawn Klaahsen, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2021)
• Erik Jansen Holleboom († 1986)
• Hendrikje Oostendorp († 2019)

• Arent de Weerdt (73)
• Alma Damsteeg (1)
• Adrianus Poot (67), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Verhagen (68), Roosendaal
• Aaltje Kraake (72), Doesburg
• Aaron Henry B Wasdijke (86), Clifton, Passaic, New Jersey, United States of America
• Arthur Vermet (73), Oostende
• Anna Schuurmans (68), Hindeloopen
• Albertus Stokman (125), Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Arthur Matthew Elam (83), Warren County (Kentucky)

• 1965 » Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer and manager
• 1965 » Katy Kurtzman, American actress and producer
• 1966 » John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician
• 1966 » Kevin Young, American hurdler
• 1966 » Scott Workman, American stuntman and actor († 2013)
• 1966 » Wil McCarthy, American author and playwright
• 1967 » Hiroya Oku, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1968 » Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1968 » Tommy Keane, Irish footballer († 2012)
• 1968 » Walt Becker, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1955 » Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1910)
• 1961 » Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915)
• 1965 » Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1965 » Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 » Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
• 1980 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (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.
• April 21 » A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
• June 9 » Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
• August 14 » UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
• August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• November 30 » South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on September 16, 1967 was between 10.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.