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• Bénédicte Chantal Lucie Odile VIGNOBLE, Hôpital Saint Jean, Bruxelles, 1080, Brabant, Belgique
• Roelfien Harma van der Vinne († 1970)
• Helena Marieke Donga, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Diana Fransina Dogger, Den Helder († 2014)
• Mengs Stekelenburg († 2015)
• Bob van Niekerk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Maria Groot, Purmerend
• Corina Christina Roeland, Maasland
• Diana-Fransina Dogger, het St. Lidwina ziekenhuis in den Helder († 2014)

• Antonia Henrica Petronella Relou (56), Helmond
• Age Huitema (80), Sneek
• Adolphus Verstuyft (75), Huldenberg
• Neeltje Emmarentia Geertruida Bleijenberg (54), Ijsselstein
• Aaltje Liemburg (41), Zaandam
• Arie Otto Rijsdijk (64), Litzelstetten, Freiburg, Duitsland
• Adriana Maria Willemse (70), Rotterdam
• Andries van den Anker (73), Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander Joseph Hubertus Aretz (85), Palemig, Schaesberg, Landgraaf
• Albertus Zijlstra (94), Groningen

• 1965 » Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier
• 1965 » Olga Nazarova, Russian sprinter
• 1966 » Greg Schiano, American football player and coach
• 1968 » Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
• 1968 » Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 » Mathias Rust, German aviator
• 1969 » Luis García Postigo, former Mexican footballer
• 1969 » Teri Polo, American actress
• 1970 » Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1970 » Georgie Gardner, Australian journalist and television host

• 1960 » Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Paula Hitler, German-Austrian sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (b. 1906)
• 1963 » Walter Lee, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
• 1965 » Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach, founded the Green Bay Packers (b. 1898)
• 1966 » Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1873)
• 1968 » André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Helen Keller, American author and activist (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892)

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 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
• February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
• May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
• August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• 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 June 1, 1968 was between 10.0 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.