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• Christ-Jan Pijnenborg, Biezenmortel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Ronny Sneekes († 1976)
• Lisa Kay Scott, Omaha, Nebraska († 2005)
• Kaye Anne Rindels († 1968)
• Rene Klopstra, Hoogezand († 2009)

• Alice (Stearns) Vinton (79), Spokane, Spokane, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Gerardus Spiekman (75), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Alice Vinton (79), Spokane, Spokane, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Alida van der Kruk (84)
• Clydia Mai Hood (65)
• Anna Maria Petronella Bardoel (54), Heilig Hartziekenhuis, Boxmeer, Boxmeer, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Buford Henry Hollingsworth (56)
• Anthonie van der Werf (94)
• Anna Maria Clasina Ruigrok (87), Castricum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Marinus (83), Veghel(NB)

• 1966 » Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 » Dan Tyminski, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 » Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
• 1968 » Robert Rodriguez, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » MaliVai Washington, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1969 » Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1969 » Paulo Bento, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1970 » Andrea Nahles, German politician, German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
• 1970 » Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
• 1971 » Rodney Rogers, American basketball player and coach

• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Johan
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.
• January 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
• February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
• September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.

The temperature on June 20, 1968 was between 10.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.