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• Denis Warlaumont, St. Mandé († 1968)
• Bas (Sebastiaan Pieter) van Elk († 2013)
• Anja van Hooft, Heusden († 1970)
• Lesa ALBRECHT († 1968)
• Theo de Ridder, Alkmaar († 1968)
• Joyce van Veen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Francisca Maria van Zandvoort, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johan Alblas († 2007)
• Esther Chorus, Geleen,6129,Sittard-Geleen,Limburg,Nederland

• Elisabeth Johanna Koevoets (62), Roosendaal
• Alphonsus Hubertus Kools (57), Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Johannes Maria Gooskens (17), Eindhoven
• Adriana Maria Kievit (95), Amsterdam
• Barendina Slootweg (70), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• M Leonard Pieter Berkhof (37), Almelo
• Adrianus Pieter Becht (81), Dirkshorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bouke Hoff (92)
• Aaltje Lipke (71), Elburg
• Alfred Johannes Maria Gooskens (17), Eindhoven

• 1965 » Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
• 1965 » Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author
• 1966 » Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1966 » Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 » Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
• 1967 » Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1970 » Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
• 1970 » Cafu, Brazilian footballer
• 1970 » Helen Baxendale, English actress
• 1970 » Mike Modano, American ice hockey player

• 1961 » Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
• 1963 » ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 » Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1970 » E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
• 1978 » Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

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.
• February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
• February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
• August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
• December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

The temperature on June 7, 1968 was between 6.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.