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• Cornelia van Duijn, Leiden († 1969)
• Johan Jansema, weiwerd († 1972)
• Cornelia van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• maria (mariam) bruijnen, helden-beringe
• Franciscus Wilhelmus Johannes Petrus de Bie, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Brand Aris Roskam (70), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Derk Pieterman (48), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Everardus Johannes van Ruiten (77), Roelofarendsveen
• Ernestus Alphonsus Van den Eynde (74), Herenthout, België
• Arie Keijts (88), Leerdam
• Francis Albert Harpham (61), Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska, United States of America
• Adrianus van Wunnik (62), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Schravemade (84)
• Andreas Dirkx (66), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Curtis Albert Wylie (74), Rockwall, Rockwall County, Texas

• 1965 » Claude Bourbonnais, Canadian race car driver
• 1965 » Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician
• 1965 » Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 » Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1966 » Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1967 » Janez Lapajne, Slovenian director and producer
• 1967 » John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator († 2012)
• 1970 » Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1962 » Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1892)
• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1969 » Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1980 » V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)

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. John
14. Patrick
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 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
• March 6 » Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
• June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
• December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.

The temperature on June 24, 1968 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.