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• Mark Zimmerman, Pretoria, Zuid-Afrika († 1968)
• Mike Van Schoorisse († 2021)
• Paul Zimmermann († 1968)
• Desirée Maria Carnas, Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Jukka Antero Kirmanen, Alavus († 2014)
• Bart Geldhof († 2024)
• Gerben Arjen Bosma († 2005)
• Richard Prendergast († 1991)
• Alan Gerritsen, Grimsby, Ontario (Canada)

• Anna Maria Alting Siberg (69), Haarlem
• Catharina Ann Kooiman (8), Den Haag
• Albert Modderkolk (85)
• Antonetta Elisabeth Busker (82)
• Abraham Verschuure (78), den Haag
• Albert Modderkolk (85), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Adriana Paulina De Boer (74), Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Bannink (80), Epe
• Adrienne Schnitzler (83), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Alfons Joseph Camiel de BAERE (78), Sijsele, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1965 » Helen Alfredsson, Swedish golfer
• 1965 » Paulina Porizkova, Czech-born Swedish-American model and actress
• 1966 » Cynthia Nixon, American actress
• 1966 » John Hammond, English weather forecaster
• 1967 » Natascha Engel, German-English translator and politician
• 1967 » Sam Harris, American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist
• 1968 » Jay Chandrasekhar, American actor, comedian, writer and director
• 1969 » Barnaby Kay, English actor
• 1969 » Linda Kisabaka, German runner
• 1970 » Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter († 2013)

• 1959 » Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (b. 1867)
• 1961 » Zog I of Albania (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Eddie Edwards, American trombonist (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Xul Solar, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator (b. 1896)
• 1976 » Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1976 » Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891)
• 1978 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)

• 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.
• August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
• September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
• October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

The temperature on April 9, 1968 was between -4.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.