About the day » Sunday January 21, 1968Calender converter

• Richard Kerssies († 1992)
• Anja de Wit († 2007)
• anna mathea maria (anja) zeelen, helden-beringe
• Véronique PORCHEL, Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 1971)

• Arina Bakker (63), Den Helder
• Arina Bakker (63), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Josepha DE LANGHE (63), Pulle, Zandhoven, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Arent Gerrit Geerdink (72), Diepenheim, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andrew John Glass (79), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Anne Bakkum (75), Schoorl
• Alexandra Bally (71), Salzburg, Oostenrijk
• Anthonie Timmer (83), Badhoevedorp
• Aaron Lester Goss (63), Mena, Polk, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Almira Derotha Hughes (65)

• 1967 » Alfred Jermaniš, Slovenian footballer
• 1967 » Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess player
• 1967 » Gorō Miyazaki, Japanese film director and landscaper
• 1968 » Artur Dmitriev, Soviet and Russian ice skater
• 1968 » Charlotte Ross, American actress
• 1968 » Dmitry Fomin, Soviet and Russian volleyball player
• 1968 » Ilya Smirin, Israeli chess Grandmaster
• 1968 » Sébastien Lifshitz, French director
• 1969 » Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete
• 1969 » John Ducey, American actor

• 1959 » Carl Switzer, American child actor and hunting guide (b. 1927)
• 1959 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist (b. 1882)
• 1960 » Matt Moore, Irish-American actor and director (b. 1888)
• 1961 » Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Indian author, poet, and academic (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Gwynne Evans, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1968 » Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (b. 1914)

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. Patrick
14. John
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.
• June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• November 5 » Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
• November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
• 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.
• December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

The temperature on January 21, 1968 was between -3.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.