About the day » Monday December 9, 1968Calender converter

• Stefan Jonkman, Amsterdam
• Ermhilde Elisabeth Sophia Bertha Immaculata Ida van Plettenberg-Lenhausen, Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen († 1975)
• Princess Ermhild of Plettenberg († 1975)
• Leo Francis Meulepas († 1974)
• Richard Gray, Les Barons († 1970)
• Damien Guy Noël LEPERLIER, Saint-Louis,97421,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1968)
• Kimberly Jolene Loken, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota († 2014)

• Abraham Pieter Jansen (48), Haarlem Noord-Holland
• Abel Cornil Géry Quaegebeur (70), Rosendaël, 59183, France
• Aafje Minnes (73), Hoogkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Jäckering (75), Nordhorn
• Antonia Cornelia de Graaf (72), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Camille Pattijn (99), Markegem, Belgium
• Anna Maria van Duin (71), Lisse, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Matthew Foster (92), Capitola, Santa Cruz, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adolfo Carlo Arnoldo Antonia Maria van Lamsweerde (58), Groesbeek
• Alida Maria Van Oost (89), Wingene

• 1966 » Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician
• 1967 » Jason Dozzell, English footballer and manager
• 1967 » Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor
• 1968 » Brent Price, American basketball player
• 1968 » Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
• 1969 » Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Lori Greiner, American businesswoman
• 1969 » Raphaël Rouquier, French mathematician and academic
• 1969 » Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1964 » Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
• 1971 » Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (b. 1886)
• 1972 » Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881)

• 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.
• August 28 » The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press.
• September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
• October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• November 1 » The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
• December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
• December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

The temperature on December 9, 1968 was between -1.7 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.