About the day » Sunday February 4, 1968Calender converter

• Annemieke GORREE († 2014)
• Ahmad Usman, Katsina, Nigeria († 2009)
• Mia Antes, Maastricht († 1968)
• Franciskus Adrianus Jozefus Nooyen, Rips, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Margarel Caryl Gelzer, South Carolina ql

• Benjamin van Heuvelen (80), O'Brien County, Iowa
• Adriaan Verhage (75), Hillegom
• Alwine Kohllöffel (78), Reutlingen, Duitsland
• Anna Maria Francisca van Iersel (71), Tilburg
• Anne Marie Knapen (65), Antwerpen, België
• Arthur Everett Anderson (77), Joshua, Johnson County, Texas
• Anna Maria Klinkhamer (66), Leiden
• Antonius Sebastianus Mercq (68), Maastricht
• Adriana van Tol (67)
• Ben van Heuvelen (78), O'Brien, Iowa

• 1964 » Elke Philipp, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1965 » Jerome Brown, American football player († 1992)
• 1966 » Tony Butterfield, Australian rugby league player
• 1966 » Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
• 1967 » Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater († 1995)
• 1970 » Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
• 1971 » Eric Garcetti, American lieutenant and politician, 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles
• 1971 » Rob Corddry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian and television host
• 1972 » Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer and manager

• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Georg Konrad Morgen, German lawyer and judge (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Karen Carpenter, American singer (b. 1950)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Johan
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. John
14. Patrick
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Elisabeth
9. Esther
10. Yvonne
11. Jolanda
12. Karin
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• 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 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 12.7 million citizens.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• October 14 » Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
• December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."

The temperature on February 4, 1968 was between -2.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.