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• Marcel SMEETS, Meerssen (NL/LI) († 2018)
• Hotze Teije Eits Bijlsma († 1970)
• Theodorus Cornelis Eerland, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)

• Catharinus Faber (72)
• Braz Romano (91), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Cornelia Brand (71), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alida van der Kwaak (82), Den Haag
• Abraham Joziasse (75), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Adriaan van Tichelt (18), St.Job in 't Goor
• Annigje Hugen (77), De Krim
• Anna Cornelia Elisabeth Kruijsen (55), Nijmegen
• Cornelia Adriana Kaashoek (53), Bergen op Zoom
• Cornelis Deutekom (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1965 » James Mitchell, American wrestler and manager
• 1966 » Garry Conille, Haitian physician and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1966 » Marc Fortier, French-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 » Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
• 1967 » Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
• 1967 » Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 » Tim Commerford, American bass player
• 1969 » Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer and producer
• 1970 » Mark Harper, English accountant and politician, Minister of State for Immigration
• 1970 » Scott Mahon, Australian rugby league player

• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others
• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Elisabeth
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.
• January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

The temperature on February 26, 1968 was between -6.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.