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• Wilfried Meeusen († 2009)
• Judith Esther Pol, Zaandam († 2022)
• Mirjam Jeanette Luppen († 2013)
• David Leroy TORRENGA, Muskegon County Michigan U.S.A († 2016)
• Albertus van Rietschoten, Dordrecht († 1971)

• Abraham van der Wal (82), Haarlemmermeer
• Antje Hiemstra (66)
• Aaltje van Werkhoven (70), Nijkerk
• Christina Theresia Josephina Collet (85), Losser, Prov.Overijssel, Niederlande
• Adrianus Aarts (74), Roosendaal (Roosendaal en Nispen) (Noord-Brabant)
• Andries Kansen (39), Noord-Scharwoude, Nederland
• Charlotte Luise Anne Helene van Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (88), Tegernsee, Duitsland
• Albert Jan Buitenwerf (49), Bantega, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• ALPHONSUS JOSEPHUS DUA (68), GENT,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Charlotte Louise Anna Helena Prinses van Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (88), Tegernsee, Oberbayern, Beieren

• 1966 » Danny Manning, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 » Gilles Quénéhervé, French sprinter
• 1966 » Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1966 » Qusay Hussein, Iraqi soldier and politician († 2003)
• 1967 » Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian lawyer and politician 4th President of the Maldives
• 1967 » Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling valet and model († 2007)
• 1967 » Patrick Ortlieb, Austrian skier
• 1968 » Dave Abbruzzese, American rock drummer and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Hill, English footballer and manager
• 1970 » Hubert Davis, American basketball player and coach

• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (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.
• April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
• December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
• December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

The temperature on May 17, 1968 was between 2.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.