About the day » Friday December 27, 1968Calender converter

• Wilco Kranen
• Christopher Goral, Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada († 1996)
• Ricky James Bais, Adelaide († 2007)
• Remko Hartjesveld, 's-Gravenhage
• Leonardus Pronk, 's-Gravenhage († 2023)
• Gunther Van Roey, Hasselt († 2002)
• Sibilla Tineke Kuiper († 1996)
• Bryan Howard Lubbelinkhof, oshawa ontario (canada) († 1969)
• Bryan Howard Lubbelinkhof, Oshawa,Ontario,Canada († 1969)
• Claude W. Odle († 2003)

• Carolus Josephus SEGERS (86), Hingene,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antonius Hubertus Wagemans (92), Holtum, Born, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriaantje Luijendijk (88), Mijnsheerenland
• Aart Wulphert GULIKER (78), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• arie rietvelt (76), amsterdam,, nederland
• Alphonso Harris (66), Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America
• Aagtje Geertruida de Rijcke (81), Arnhem
• Catherine Margaret "Ketty" MacDonald (92), Leitches Creek, Cape Breton, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Anna J Scott (72)
• Carolus Engelebertus Augustinus van Laer (82), Wiekevorst, 2222, België

• 1965 » Chris Mainwaring, Australian footballer and journalist († 2007)
• 1966 » Bill Goldberg, American football player, wrestler and actor
• 1966 » Eva LaRue, American model and actress
• 1966 » Fabian Núñez, American politician
• 1966 » Marianne Elliott, English director and producer
• 1969 » Chyna, American professional wrestler and actress († 2016)
• 1969 » Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver
• 1969 » Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist
• 1970 » Brendon Cook, Australian race car driver and rugby player
• 1970 » Lorenzo Neal, American football player and radio host

• 1956 » Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and lexicographer (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Harry Warner, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
• 1972 » Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Amy Vanderbilt, American author (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 1978 » Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
• 1978 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
• 1979 » Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, 2nd President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)

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. Elisabeth
9. Esther
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 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 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
• December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
• December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

The temperature on December 27, 1968 was between -3.4 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.