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• Gert de Boer († 2019)
• Manfred Koning († 2023)
• Klasina de Graaf († 1968)
• Roeland Matthijs van der Zee, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)

• Elisabeth Timmermans (74), Tegelen
• Arie Jan Peter Sebens (62), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Raven (77), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Jarigs Rijpma (98), Blauwhuis
• klaasje Oordt (55), Zwolle
• Albert Smart (77)
• Derek William Charles KEPPEL (56), Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
• Antje Raven (77), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Pieter Wesselman (60)
• Annigjen Reitsema (81), Egmond

• 1966 » Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality
• 1967 » Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
• 1967 » Henry Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player
• 1968 » José Offerman, Dominican baseball player and manager
• 1968 » Keith Jones, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Parker Posey, American actress
• 1968 » Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1970 » David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer
• 1970 » Michael Jackson, Canadian actor
• 1970 » Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace

• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
• 1965 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
• 1970 » Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1975 » Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)

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 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
• January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
• February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
• March 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.

The temperature on November 8, 1968 was between 1.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.