About the day » Thursday July 4, 1968Calender converter

• Luis Henry Duran Gomez, Baranca Bermeja, Colombia († 1994)
• Matthew Rega, Rosedale, Queens, New York City (All Boroughs), New York, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Teuws, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 1982)
• Wiebe Lautenbach († 2018)
• Robert John van Koert, Amsterdam († 1999)
• Thea Ham († 2013)
• Jose Teuws, Maastricht († 1982)
• Geert Leo Leonie Eggermont, Duffel († 1978)
• Luis Henry Duran Gomez, Baranca Bermeja, Colombia († 1994)
• Nicole Cooymans ongehuwd, Sint Michielsgestel, NB, Nederland († 1990)

• Christiaan Antonius Gremmee (67), Waardenburg, Gld, Nederland
• Bernard Miedema (29), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Maria Bot (74), Purmerend
• Cornelia van Vuure (69), Haarlem
• Bernardus Lussing (77), Smallingerland
• Bernarda Reith (76), Frankfurt am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt Frankfurt, Hessen, Duitsland
• Arnoldus De Rooder (86), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Adriana Francisca Daems (61), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barend MENSE (78), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jantje Abee (65), Veendam

• 1965 » Harvey Grant, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 » Horace Grant, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 » Lee Reherman, American actor († 2016)
• 1966 » Minas Hantzidis, German-Greek footballer
• 1966 » Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress and screenwriter
• 1967 » Sébastien Deleigne, French athlete
• 1967 » Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player and manager
• 1969 » Al Golden, American football player and coach
• 1969 » Todd Marinovich, American football player and coach
• 1969 » Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean footballer and coach

• 1963 » Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (b. 1927)
• 1963 » Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Gaby Morlay, French actress and singer (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1970 » Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (b. 1884)
• 1971 » August Derleth, American anthologist and author (b. 1909)
• 1971 » Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
• 1974 » Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)

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 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
• September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
• October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
• December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

The temperature on July 4, 1968 was between 6.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.