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• Hermina Gerarda Hendrika Maria Osseforth († 2018)
• Robert Ibrahim Dif el Idrissi, 's-Gravenhage († 2011)
• John Lawson Forsyth, Dallas, Tx († 2009)
• Jeroen Willem Brink ten, Amstelveen
• Meindert de Boer, Urk († 2021)
• Robert Brahim Dif-El-Idrissi, 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 2011)

• Antje Jacobs Mijnheer (89), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Clarence John d'Everton Berkeley Wodehouse (85)
• Antonio Machado de Medeiros (45), Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, Brasil
• Cornelia de Munk (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Mijnheer (89), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharinus Marinus van Olm (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alphonsus Gerardus de Bijl (49), Luik (B)
• Antoinette Hamers (79), Val-Meer, Riemst (B)
• Adriana Kroeskop (81), Slayton, Murray County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia van de Kieft (79)

• 1967 » Heidi Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier
• 1967 » John Darnielle, American musician and novelist
• 1967 » Lauren Graham, American actress and producer
• 1967 » Ronnie McCoury, American bluegrass mandolin player, singer and songwriter
• 1967 » Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist
• 1968 » Trevor Wilson, American basketball player and police officer
• 1969 » Alina Ivanova, Russian athlete
• 1969 » Evangelos Koronios, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1969 » Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor
• 1969 » Ottis Gibson, Barbadian cricketer and coach

• 1961 » Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
• 1965 » Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1968 » Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1971 » Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Pie Traynor, American baseball player (b. 1898)

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.
• February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
• October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• November 8 » The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
• 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 March 16, 1968 was between 0.7 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.