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• Tony Willem Berthe Stroobants, Leuven, 3000 België († 2020)
• Thomas Jurrianus Westdijk, Zoeterwoude († 1979)
• Lydia Revers
• NN ten Hove, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1968)
• Ann Raets, Sint-Truiden, België († 2004)
• Cornelia Alida Christina Knip, Naaldwijk († 1995)
• Femmigje ten Klooster, Bakhuizen († 1974)
• Cory Steven Allspach, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2023)
• Christopher Joseph HERINCKX († 1976)

• Anna Aerts (72), Wervik, België
• Anna Josephena Martin (81)
• * Petrus Hubertus Henricus # van de Ven (83), Schiedam
• Andries Oremans (84), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Arie Goudkuil (61)
• * Andries Oremans (84), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Andries Dullemond (87)
• Anna Catharina Aerts (72), Wervik (B)
• Adriana Johanna Timmers (67), Breda
• Charles Clyde Starn (57), Fairmont, Marion Cnty, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten

• 1964 » Wendy Williams, American talk show host
• 1965 » Vesselina Kasarova, Bulgarian soprano
• 1966 » Dan O'Brien, American decathlete and coach
• 1967 » Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor
• 1968 » Scott Gourley, Australian rugby player
• 1969 » Elizabeth Gilbert, American author
• 1969 » The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1971 » Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1952 » Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)

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 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
• October 31 » Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
• November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.

The temperature on July 18, 1968 was between 10.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.