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• Erik Jacobus van Ginkel, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Cornelius Antonius Anna Maria Baijens, Baarle-Nassau († 1969)
• Eveline Edith Boeldak
• NN Ypenga, Leeuwarden
• Cornelia van Mourik, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)
• Martinus Cornelus Leonardus Jansen, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Jettchen van der Molen, Lage van de Weg (gem. Uithuizen) († 1976)

• Anthony Franciscus Mandos (82), 's-Gravenhage
• Bernhard Friedrich Slag (71), Eibergen, Gelderland, NL
• Adrianus Brok (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August Frans de Bock (86), Temse
• Cornelis Gijsbertus Boon (72), Leiden
• Antonius Cornelus Mom (75)
• Anthonis Nicolaas Knijnenburg (64), Schiedam
• Diena Kuipers (80), Amen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Eurlings (88), Maastricht
• Albert Prins (61), Amsterdam

• 1967 » Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer and coach
• 1967 » Dave Rayner, English cyclist († 1994)
• 1967 » Evan Dando, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Ivan Lewis, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1967 » Terry Matterson, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1968 » Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1968 » Graham Westley, English footballer and manager
• 1968 » Jorge Celedón, Colombian singer
• 1968 » Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek banker and politician, Prime Minister of Greece
• 1968 » Patsy Kensit, English model and actress

• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer, and politician, 8th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1976 » John Marvin Jones, American judge and politician (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, author, and critic (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian botanist and curator (b. 1912)

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 31 » Nauru gains independence from Australia.
• August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• October 31 » Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
• November 5 » Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
• 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 March 4, 1968 was between -0.2 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.