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• Roland de Wit († 2012)
• Ellen Smeets, Cadier en Keer, Limburg, Netherlands († 2000)
• Cornelis Arie Zuijderduijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Berend Roelf Knol, Hoogeveen Drenthe Nederland († 1968)
• Berend Roelf Knol, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1968)
• Anton Kuijer († 1968)
• Gino van de Merlen, Beveren († 1980)
• Cornelis Arie Zuijderduijn, Katwijk († 1989)
• Jan Bezema, Groningen

• Antonia van Keulen (70), Heiloo
• Antonius Hendricus van Luijk (89), Wouw, N-Br, NL
• Armilda Stidham (71), Lexington
• Antonia van Keulen (70), Gemeente Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carlos Otto Stroeter (74)
• Adrianus van der Walle (78), Rotterdam
• Anton Geissler (63), Ommen
• Cornelia van der Star (91), Noordwijkerhout
• Alphonsus Adrianus Musters (84), Zevenbergen, Gemeente Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart van Bloemendaal (78)

• 1966 » Natalie Nougayrède, French journalist
• 1967 » Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 » Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Steven Levitt, American economist, author, and academic
• 1968 » Hida Viloria, American activist
• 1968 » Jessica Morden, English politician
• 1968 » Tate George, American basketball player
• 1968 » Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
• 1970 » Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
• 1970 » Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager

• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Eva Hesse, American artist (b. 1936)
• 1970 » John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1972 » Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (b. 1878)
• 1973 » George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)

• 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 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
• February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• March 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
• April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
• August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
• December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

The temperature on May 29, 1968 was between 11.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.