About the day » Tuesday August 27, 1968Calender converter

• De Maet, Roeselaere, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Catherine L Davis, Battle Creek Calhoun Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Pieter Alexander Janbroers, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Martin Andr√© Hupkes († 1981)
• Audry Jeanine Bons, purmerend († 2014)
• Gerdientje Roos, Wezep († 1968)
• xx Dallinga, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Magrietha VAN DER MERWE, Boksburg († 1980)
• Patrick Marcellus van Daalen, Utrecht († 1991)
• Madeleine Tol († 2014)

• Archibald Orvil Brackney (77), National City, San Diego County, California
• berend herman cornelis hilferink (54), apeldoorn
• Carl Christian Fjerdingstad (77), Tavemy (Val d'Oise)
• Alida Antoinette Schreurs (80), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Andries GRONDMAN, Nederland
• Antonia van der Kwast (90), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cyriel Sinave (75), Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota (USA)
• Ernest Merry Getz (54), Verenigde Statn
• Carolus Wilhelmus Johannes Mekenkamp (76), Velzen, 1950, Nederland
• Arie Versteeg (87), Nieuw-Vennep, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1966 » Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower
• 1967 » Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1967 » Rob Burnett, American football player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic
• 1968 » Matthew Ridge, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Michael Long, New Zealand golfer
• 1969 » Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer, television personality, and author
• 1969 » Chandra Wilson, American actress and director
• 1969 » Mark Ealham, English cricketer
• 1969 » Reece Shearsmith, English actor, comedian and writer

• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)

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 31 » American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
• April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
• July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• 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 August 27, 1968 was between 15.2 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.