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• Polly Venetia REID († 1968)
• Evelien Stevens
• Patrick De Belder, Maaseik (B), België († 2005)
• Klaas Brink (junior), IJsselmuiden, Nederland († 1968)
• Jan Engel († 2020)

• Bastiaan Cornelis van Zwol (75), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Maria van de Werken (37)
• Adriaan van Dongen (76)
• Beitske Wijbenga (41), Cocksdorp (Texel)
• Adriana van Ierland (80), Tilburg
• Andries de JONGE (53), De Bilt,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anko Medema (53), Groningen
• Antonia Theodora Verschoor (78), Gorssel
• Clarence Lewis August Moenning (55), Lamar, Barton County, Missouri
• Andries de Jonge (53)

• 1966 » Marc Glanville, Australian rugby league player
• 1967 » Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1967 » Frances O'Connor, English-Australian actress
• 1968 » Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter († 1999)
• 1968 » Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
• 1968 » Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
• 1969 » Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler († 2013)
• 1969 » Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
• 1969 » Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
• 1969 » Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist († 2007)

• 1962 » John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1978 » Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)

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 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
• March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
• April 6 » Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
• October 31 » Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
• December 11 » The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.

The temperature on June 12, 1968 was between 9.1 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 15.6 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.