About the day » Sunday May 19, 1968Calender converter

• Willem Jan Groenendijk, Middelharnis, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Adrianus Speranza Luca
• Tako Arjan Roetering, Middelburg

• Anastacia de Anda (70), México, Distrito Federal, México
• Antonie Reniers (78), Breda. Noord Brabant
• Albertus Pronk (85), Den Haag
• Cecy Furquim Leite (63), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albertus Johannes Hake (71), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gezina Rolink (44)
• Albert Joseph Absil (79), Kerkrade
• Ana Silvia de Souza (0), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adrianus Suijkerbuijk (75), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Bruinsma (72)

• 1966 » Jodi Picoult, American author and educator
• 1966 » Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1966 » Polly Walker, English actress
• 1967 » Alexia, Italian singer
• 1967 » Geraldine Somerville, Irish-born English actress
• 1968 » Kyle Eastwood, American actor and bass player
• 1970 » K. J. Choi, South Korean golfer
• 1970 » Nia Zulkarnaen, Indonesian actress, singer and producer
• 1970 » Regina Narva, Estonian chess player
• 1970 » Stuart Cable, Welsh drummer († 2010)

• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1969 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
• 1983 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)

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.
• January 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
• 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.
• July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
• August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.

The temperature on May 19, 1968 was between 3.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.