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• NN Alsemgeest, Delft († 1968)
• Chen Kohenshtamm, Be`er Tuvia (IL) († 1998)
• Klasina van Donkersgoed, Putten († 1969)
• Fréderic Emile Marie Merckx, Dinant († 1997)
• Klazine van Donkersgoed, Putten († 1969)

• Aaltje KRUIZINGA, (80), Groningen
• Anna Sandker (61), Wachtum
• Bernardus Nicolaas Tolmeijer (94), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Roovers (68), Oss
• Agnes Dreyer (66), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Bernarda Hendrika LENDERINK (86), Boskoop,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Albert Homan (77), Vries, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Blok (85)
• Adelheid Elisabeth Melanie Ida Emilie Mathilde Victoria van der Recke van Volmerstein (91), Wehrden, Beverungen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Arnold Geerligs (77), Neuenhaus, Niedersachsen, Duitsland

• 1965 » Helena Suková, Czech-Monacan tennis player
• 1965 » Michael Dell, American businessman
• 1967 » Chris Vrenna, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1967 » Steve Stricker, American golfer
• 1969 » Daymond John, American fashion designer and businessman, founded FUBU
• 1969 » Martine Croxall, English journalist and television news presenter
• 1969 » Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
• 1970 » Niecy Nash, American actress and producer
• 1971 » Carin Koch, Swedish golfer
• 1971 » Melinda Messenger, English model and television host

• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)

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 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• March 31 » American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
• July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• 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.
• December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

The temperature on February 23, 1968 was between -0.5 and 0.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.