About the day » Wednesday June 5, 1968Calender converter

• Anita Louise Weening, Calgary, AB, Canada († 2022)
• Eric Hermanus Overweg, Rotterdam († 2020)
• BERNARDUS JOHANNES MOSTERT, HARDERWIJK († 2014)
• Daphne Wilhelmina van der Put, Carman, Pembina Valley, Manitoba, Canada († 1990)
• Olivier d' Harcourt († 1968)
• Osmar Michels, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1994)
• susanne petronella wilhelmina maria (susanne) teeuwen, venlo
• Carlo Van Vlaanderen († 2013)
• Daphne Wilhelmina van der Put († 1990)
• Eefje Huskens, 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Adrianus Sebastianus Dam (63), Eindhoven
• Antonieta Rudge Hampshire (56), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Berend Germeraad (82), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Germeraad
• Basil Louis Larabee (57), Grand Haven, Township of Kassel, Union County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Antonia van Amerongen (66)
• Caesarina Florina Beutels (89), Scherpenheuvel
• Aaltje Smid (71)
• Antonie Oosterbroek (61), Callantsoog
• Aafke Hotzes de Jong (85)

• 1965 » Alfie Turcotte, American ice hockey player
• 1965 » Michael E. Brown, American astronomer and author
• 1965 » Sandrine Piau, French soprano
• 1967 » Joe DeLoach, American sprinter
• 1967 » Matt Bullard, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Ray Lankford, American baseball player
• 1967 » Ron Livingston, American actor
• 1968 » Ed Vaizey, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
• 1969 » Brian McKnight, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1970 » Martin Gélinas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1947 » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Harry Brown, Australian public servant (b. 1878)
• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)

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.
• February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
• 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 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
• October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
• December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.

The temperature on June 5, 1968 was between 9.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.