About the day » Wednesday April 3, 1968Calender converter

• Marcel Vrinssen, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hettie Boeren
• Katja Leonora Murk, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 2012)
• Henriëtte Maria Boeren, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)
• Marielle Marre († 1971)

• Anna Maria Einhaus (74), Roscommon, Michigan
• Alonzo Fowler (91), New Hannover County, North Carolina
• Anna Marie Louisa Daatzelaar (76), Soest
• Adriana Dijmphna Engel (68), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Louisa Daatzelaar (76), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Beatrice Margareta Maria Antonia Castermans (57), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Johannes Maria Oonincx (75), Rotterdam
• Bastiaan Naaktgeboren (82), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendina Wassink (77), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Wijngaarde (82), Breda. Noord-Brabant

• 1967 » Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 » Cat Cora, American chef and author
• 1967 » Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter
• 1967 » Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1967 » Pervis Ellison, American basketball player
• 1968 » Charlotte Coleman, English actress († 2001)
• 1968 » Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer
• 1968 » Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1968 » Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 » Rodney Hampton, American football player

• 1958 » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)
• 1962 » Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
• 1976 » Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1976 » David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)

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. Esther
9. Elisabeth
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.
• March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
• April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
• November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
• November 27 » Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

The temperature on April 3, 1968 was between -0.6 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.