About the day » Friday February 2, 1968Calender converter

• Catharina Carla Tuitman, De Waal
• Carlo Gerad Lucien Valentin Piton, Hasselt, België († 1971)
• Ingeborg Inez Elise SCHRAMEIJER, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Sharon Margaret Westcamp, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten
• Martin Wielemaker, Middelburg, Nederland († 2017)
• Onno Joost Sickinghe, ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands († 1971)
• Marie-Anne Michelle Regina Bonnier, Amsterdam

• Antje Boonstra (68)
• Antje Oost (79)
• van den Beukel (93), Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Carolina Anthonetta Bax (83), Den Haag
• Albert Snoek (41)
• Arthur Earl** CONDIE (62), Springville, Utah County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Aart Kroes (89)
• aart VEERMAN (74), rotterdam
• Arthur Leroy Corbin (85), Los Angeles County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna "Caroline" Julie von Giech (87), Schloss Thurnau, Bayern, Allemagne

• 1966 » Adam Ferrara, American actor and comedian
• 1966 » Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player and coach
• 1966 » Michael Misick, Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
• 1966 » Robert DeLeo, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1967 » Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 » Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
• 1968 » Scott Erickson, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 » Sean Elliott, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1969 » Dana International, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Valeri Karpin, Estonian-Russian footballer and manager

• 1962 » Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
• 1969 » Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1970 » Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Natalie Clifford Barney, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1973 » Hendrik Elias, Belgian academic and politician, 9th Mayor of Ghent (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Imre Lakatos, Hungarian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1975 » Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1883)

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.
• February 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
• February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• April 11 » Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
• November 17 » Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.

The temperature on February 2, 1968 was between 1.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.