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• Monique Ingen van, Wageningen
• N.N. Kooijman, Stadskanaal (Gem. Onstwedde) († 1968)
• Albert Ray Haken († 1968)
• Thomas O'Brien Woodrich, Coeur d'Alene, ID, VS († 2024)
• Maarten Willem Tutuarima, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Nederland († 1968)
• Renata Kathmann, Germany († 2012)

• Donald Thorne HESS (55), Pine City, Pine, Minnesota, United States of America
• Faybion Holmes (73), Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN
• Albert Peter Jean (Albert) Achten (51), Genk, België
• Annigje Vaartjes (90), Joure, Haskerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Florine Elizabeth Harris (72), Alexandria City, Virginia, United States of America
• Alvord Vernette Durwood Verley (46), Eureka, Lincoln, Montana, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Dekker (69), Julianadorp (Den Helder)
• Anna de Jong (25), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adranus Gerardus Hendrik Fanoy (61)
• Christina Lamberta Klop (84), Haaften

• 1964 » Heather Langenkamp, American actress and producer
• 1965 » Alex Winter, English-American actor, film director and screenwriter
• 1965 » Craig Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 » Lou Barlow, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1966 » Sten Tolgfors, Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Swedish Minister of Defence
• 1969 » Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian cyclist
• 1969 » Scott Johnson, American cartoonist
• 1971 » Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
• 1971 » Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist

• 1959 » Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
• 1961 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1967 » John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)
• 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)

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. Karin
12. Jolanda
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 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
• July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."

The temperature on July 17, 1968 was between 8.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.