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• Albertus Johannes Theodorus Jansen, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• anna (ans) jeucken, helden-beringe
• Machiel Marinus Vaders, Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 2020)
• Nadia HIMPE, Izegem,8870,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie († 2017)
• Gerrit Johannes Mulder, Sassenheim († 1973)

• Catharina Maria van Huijgevoort (68), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Visser (76), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikusz Toeter (74), Vollenhove, ov.nld
• Adrianus Wouterus Franken (51), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• ALFONS VAN VOSSEL (31), Melsele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Antonius Antoinette Paanakker (71), Nijmegen
• Augusta Dwight Morton (89)
• Alberdine Arends (62), Eelde, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Arie Vink (69), Jasper County, Iowa
• Antonia Hendrina Willems (54), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1967 » Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
• 1967 » Pernilla Wahlgren, Swedish singer and actress
• 1968 » Doyle Bramhall II, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Marleen Renders, Belgian runner
• 1969 » Brad Anderson, American wrestler
• 1969 » Leavander Johnson, American boxer († 2005)
• 1969 » Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Ryuji Kato, Japanese soccer player
• 1969 » Taro Goto, Japanese soccer player

• 1964 » Claudia Jones, Trinidad-British journalist and activist (b. 1915)
• 1965 » John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)

• 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.
• February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
• 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 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
• December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

The temperature on December 24, 1968 was between 1.9 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.