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• Daniel Johannes VAN DER WEL, Johannesburg,Gauteng,ZUID-AFRIKA († 2001)
• Chris Mulder, Groningen
• Terry Lee Dieterman, Cadillac (Wexford), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Désirée Louise Maria van der Eerden, Loon op Zand
• Marjan Brans, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ottoline van den Brink, Putten († 1969)
• Tan-Dung Nguyen, Binh-Thuan Vietnam († 2021)
• Frederik van Veelen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 2001)

• Anna A. Andres (91), Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Beekman (75), Bergen
• Antje Scholtens (77), Groningen
• Charles Oliver GIBBS (89), Auckland, New Zealand
• Bernardt Oudolf (78), Den Haag
• Arnolda Johanna Gillon (43), 's-Gravenhage
• Atje (Ella) Harmens Ebbens (83), Lansing, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Carl Clarence Clinkscales (70), Boise, Ada County, Idaho, United States of America
• Arentje DE RUITER (83)
• Arie van Roon (68), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1966 » Gary Elkins, English footballer and manager
• 1966 » Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation († 2008)
• 1967 » Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
• 1967 » Kate Garraway, English journalist
• 1969 » Franz Resch, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 » Dawn Staley, American basketball player
• 1970 » Giovanni Mirabassi, Italian jazz musician
• 1970 » Gregg Alexander, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer

• 1953 » Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1955 » George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1975 » Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1981 » C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)

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 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 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• November 8 » The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
• November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

The temperature on May 4, 1968 was between 9.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 18.2 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.