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• Jeane Bernadet (Journey) GRAHAM, Paramaribo (Suriname)
• Marinus Herman Schoneveld, Goor (O) († 1985)
• Diana van Zuijlekom, Rotterdam
• Hans Spierings, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Gerrit Gall († 1993)
• Quinn Ryan Berglund, of Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States († 2010)
• Eric Albert Ermert, Stanford, California
• Bruno SINNEMA, France († 2005)
• Armin Heiko Georg Kathmann, Nürnberg, Germany († 1969)
• Barbara Maria de Bruin, Utrecht († 2014)

• Antonia Canceleno (16), New York, United States
• Berend Meems (66), Veendam Groningen Nederland
• Anne Johannes Smeding (77)
• Charles Aimé Marie Elise François met den Ancxt (71), Louveciennes,78430,Yvelines,Île-de-France,France
• Anton H Gruis (78), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Alida Kruidhof (66), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arbeno Maria Graaf van Attems-Heiligenkreuz (70), Aiello-del-Friuli, Frioul-Julisch Venetië
• Andreas Theodorus Loos (67), Hilversum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Oeveren van (74), Sint-Phillipsland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Barbara Brouwer (87), Hull, Sioux, Iowa, United States of America

• 1967 » Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
• 1967 » Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler († 2005)
• 1967 » Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
• 1968 » Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
• 1969 » Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1969 » Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1969 » Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
• 1969 » Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
• 1969 » PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
• 1969 » Simon Fairweather, Australian archer

• 1962 » Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1967 » André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 » Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1972 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)

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.
• January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
• March 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
• April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
• August 2 » An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

The temperature on October 9, 1968 was between 9.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.