About the day » Friday September 6, 1968Calender converter

• Richard Joseph Thomas, Schaesberg
• Rebecca Marie (Becky) Barendrick, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, VS († 2005)
• maarten j.l. van der zanden, deurne

• Dina Huibregtse (56), Kortgene, Zeeland, NL
• Clinton Atkins Higgs [80] (88)
• Cornelie Charlotte Brocx (65), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Banen (50), Amsterdam
• Agatha Duijn (77), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Tempelaars (87), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Blanche P. PUFFER (80), Riverside, Riverside County, California
• Andries Dirksz Bierenbroodspot (76), Hengelo, Netherlands
• Dominicus Huylebroeck (86), Moerzeke
• Anthonie Benard (85), Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1967 » Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager
• 1967 » Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator
• 1967 » Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1967 » Milan Lukić, Convicted of war crimes by the ICTY
• 1967 » William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author
• 1968 » Paul Rea, American journalist
• 1968 » Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
• 1969 » Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator
• 1969 » Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator

• 1959 » Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (b. 1927)
• 1962 » Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
• 1966 » Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre
• 1974 » Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)

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.
• April 6 » Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
• July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
• December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.

The temperature on September 6, 1968 was between 8.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.