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• Fred Kaptein, Zuidelijke Ysselmeerpolders († 2017)
• Nicolaas Thaddeus Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Bern, Zwitserl († 1987)
• Anna maria catharina (Annemarie) Steur, Edam-Volendam († 2002)
• Hilde Breugelmans, Deurne († 2008)
• Johan Christoffel Outhuyse († 2010)
• jolanda van de velde († 1986)
• Rene Klaas Bettinger, Weesp
• Jochen Franz Br. RICKHEI, Duderstadt
• Nicolaas Thaddeus Beelaerts vBlokld, Bern († 1987)
• Edmond Richard Bregman, Den Helder († 1968)

• Bernardus Leonardus Oetker (71), Schiedam
• Comadore MCDuffie Soles Jr (57)
• Anna DE WITT (83), Kaiserswerth Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
• Aleida Geijtenbeek (53), Speuld
• Cornelis Jacobus Prins (47), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Rooij (49), Arnhem
• Alberto Joseph Ewaldus Dinslage (47), Bergen op Zoom
• Alma Helaman DANSIE (91), Herriman, Utah
• Petronella Van Tilburg (62), Bergen op Zoom (Lievensberg)
• Anna Maria van Haperen (77), Gilze

• 1966 » Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic actor, director, and producer
• 1966 » Donal Logue, Canadian actor and director
• 1966 » Oliver Reck, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Dănuț Lupu, Romanian footballer
• 1967 » Jony Ive, English industrial designer, former chief design officer (CDO) of Apple
• 1968 » Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
• 1969 » Gareth Llewellyn, Welsh rugby union player
• 1969 » Juan E. Gilbert, American computer scientist, inventor, and academic
• 1970 » Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
• 1970 » Patricia Petibon, French soprano and actress

• 1956 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1969 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1977 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1980 » George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
• 1985 » J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Johan
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. Karin
12. Jolanda
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 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
• December 11 » The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
• December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.

The temperature on February 27, 1968 was between -4.3 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.