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• Patrick Deen, Amsterdam († 2018)
• Ferry Marcus Loopeker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Leendert Dam, Nieuw-Beijerland († 2019)
• Andrew William Dotinga, Hemet CA († 2009)
• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1968)

• Aris Heerings (100), Voorhout
• Dorothy L Ypma (48), East Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan (USA)
• Auke Nienhuis (59), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Bernardus Grevenstuk (59), Aachen
• Antje Solleveld (71), Amsterdam
• Alphonsus Gerardus Liebrand (55), Nijmegen (GLD), Nederland
• Bertha Josephine Goethals (72), Snellegem
• Albertha M FLEEGE (80), Menominee (Jo Daviess Co.), Illinois, United States
• Derk Huisman (82), Slochteren
• Cyril Frederick McDonald * (63), Bexley, New South Wales, Australia

• 1965 » Jeremy Piven, American actor and producer
• 1966 » Angelo di Livio, Italian footballer
• 1967 » Jason Statham, English actor
• 1967 » Martin Baker, English organist and conductor
• 1967 » Tim Schafer, American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
• 1968 » Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director
• 1968 » Jim Naismith, Scottish biologist and academic
• 1968 » Olivia Williams, English actress
• 1969 » Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player and coach
• 1969 » Tanni Grey-Thompson, Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer

• 1952 » Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
• 1953 » Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
• 1960 » Cedric Gibbons, British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
• 1984 » Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
• 1984 » George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)

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 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
• October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
• December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
• December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.

The temperature on July 26, 1968 was between 12.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.