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• J(Johan) oude Nijhuis, Geesteren (Tubbergen) († 1982)
• Eric Lynn Frye, Peoria, Illinois, VS († 2020)
• Gerry Teuwsen († 1968)
• Nienke SNIP, Joure (Haskerland) Friesland Netherlands († 2007)
• Edward SALOMONS, Lacombe Alberta Canada († 1993)
• Johannes Gerardus Maria Oude Nijhuis, Geesteren († 1982)
• Emiel Kanters, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Sonja Mignon Grijseels, Launceston, Tasmanië, Australië († 1968)
• Christian Hendrik André Maria van Kempen

• Adriana Cornelia Theunisse (87), Roosendaal en Nispen
• CATHARINA DE HAAN (79), LEEUWARDEN
• Annigje Hartman (80)
• Adrianus Wennekus (59), onbekend
• Adrianus Wennekus (59)
• Cornelis Burger (71), 's Gravenhage, Z-H
• Catharina de Haan (79), Leeuwarden
• Binne van der Wal (64), Drachten
• Cornelis van den Bos (70), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Maria Zomerdijk (59), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1967 » Craig Wolanin, American ice hockey player
• 1967 » Hans Mathisen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
• 1967 » Juliana Hatfield, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1967 » Neil Smith, English cricketer
• 1967 » Rahul Bose, Indian journalist, actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Julian McMahon, Australian actor and producer
• 1968 » Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress and producer
• 1968 » Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian race car driver
• 1968 » Sabina Jeschke, Swedish-German engineer and academic
• 1968 » Tom Goodwin, American baseball player and coach

• 1962 » James H. Kindelberger, American pilot and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Richard Aldington, English poet and author (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1964 » Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Daniel-Rops, French historian and author (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Babe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1970 » António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1971 » Charlie Tully, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
• 1975 » Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician († 1926)

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. 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.
• May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
• December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.

The temperature on July 27, 1968 was between 12.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.