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• Dick Zonneveld, Uitgeest († 2006)
• Johannes Cornelis Maria Scheepers, De Mortel (Gemert) († 1973)
• Rodney Lee Stahl, Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota († 1970)
• Georg Klaas († 1968)
• Marco Reuvers, Noordhoek
• Geert Snijder († 2017)
• Vivienne Elizabeth French, Germany († 2006)
• Anja Prins
• Danny Maria August (Danny) Pirson, Sint-Truiden, België († 1974)
• Daan van Torenburg († 2003)

• Anna Hubertina Derix (79), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Willemina Mom (79), Apeldoorn
• Antje BERKHOUT (52), Purmerend, NH, Nederland
• Anje Doornbos (77), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alivia Williams (76)
• Antonius Adrianus Wilhelmus Prince (21), Utrecht
• Adrianus Cornelis Luijkx (86), Zevenbergen
• Alois Oostendorp (63), Haldern, NRW, Duitsland
• Arie van de Glind (79)
• Adriana Maria Warmond (72), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster
• 1967 » Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist
• 1968 » Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer
• 1968 » Mario Basler, German footballer and manager
• 1968 » Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
• 1969 » Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
• 1969 » Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager († 2019)
• 1969 » Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer

• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)

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 13 » Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
• February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
• 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.

The temperature on December 18, 1968 was between -0.7 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.