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• Ed Sier († 2015)
• Susan Renae Vegter
• Marcus Antonius Maria (Marco) Morssink, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2007)
• Anna Jocelyn Maria de Beurs, Amsterdam
• Ingeborg Francis Meijerhoven, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Gerardus Cornelis Johannes Tielenius Kruythoff, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Marcus Antonius Marie (Marco) Morssink, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2007)
• Jacoba VERMEER, Wageningen († 1969)

• Allen VanBuren Todd (56), Carman, Henderson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Johanna Zieltjens (0), amsterdam
• Adriana Johanna van Hagen (74), Delft
• Bertha Petronella Linders (70), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Geertruida Goosen (80), Venray
• Cornelis van Kempen (76), Rockanje, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jozef Vermeij (61), Oudewater
• Anita Lorraine Brown
• Charles B Vernon (67), Veterans Memorial Hospital
• Adriana Johanna van Hagen (74), Delft,-

• 1965 » Kyle Chandler, American actor
• 1965 » Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog
• 1966 » Doug E. Fresh, American rapper and producer
• 1967 » Michael Carbajal, American boxer
• 1968 » Cheryl Strayed, American author
• 1968 » Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1969 » Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Paul Varelans, American MMA fighter and wrestler

• 1953 » David Munson, American runner (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1965 » Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor and actor (b. 1930)
• 1971 » Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (b. 1937)
• 1972 » Akim Tamiroff, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Nicola Moscona, Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)

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.
• March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
• July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
• September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
• 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.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

The temperature on September 17, 1968 was between 10.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.