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• Marcel Borg, Apeldoorn (GL) († 2014)
• Jeroen Sebastiaan Schaftenaar, Harderwijk († 1968)
• Jolanda Desirée van Rossum, Den Helder († 2011)
• Sabine A. A. Neven, Sint-Truiden, België († 2013)
• leonardus johanna (leon) feller, helden-panningen
• Kathleen VANMAELE, Brugge († 2014)
• Jodi Elzenga, Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa († 1983)
• Harmen de Nachtegaal († 2010)
• Benjamin Joseph Kaal, Muenster (Canada) († 1988)
• de Boer († 1999)

• Anna Adriana Smolders (88), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje Kraaijenbrink (93), Doetinchem (Gelderland)
• Catharina Jacoba van Dongen (88), Zaandam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• aart HUIJSER (76), numansdorp
• Anne Marie Catherine Josephine ROMSEE (83), Wellen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• 'Louise' Marie Emma Félicie de WALQUE (87), Spa, 63072, Liège, Belgique
• Antonius Joseph Straatman (64), Groningen
• Alberdina GIEZEN (87), Emmercompascuum
• Albert Scholten (81), Grand Rapids City, Kent, Michigan
• Berthe Sophie Louchart (80), Herbelles, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Frankrijk

• 1966 » Olaf Thon, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Tim McGraw, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1968 » D'arcy Wretzky, American bass player and singer
• 1968 » Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer and manager
• 1969 » Billy Owens, American basketball player
• 1969 » Mary Lou McDonald, Irish politician
• 1969 » Wes Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 » Ethan Albright, American football player
• 1971 » Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer

• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Yi Un, Korean prince (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (b. 1939)
• 1976 » T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)

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 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
• July 1 » Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
• September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
• October 20 » Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
• 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 May 1, 1968 was between 6.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.