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• levenloos geboren kind († 1968)
• Pieter Roelof Snier, Utrecht († 1983)
• Martine Wisse Smit (Los) (Mabel), Pijnacker, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• gerard van den beuken, helden-beringe
• Wilhelmus Gustaaf Maria Stes, Breda († 2008)
• Mabel Wisse Smit, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Wilhelmus Gustaaf Maria Stes, Breda († 2008)

• Alma Ottilie Frieda Rothe (73), Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Berend Nijmeijer (71), Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
• Dirk Zoetekouw (66)
• Alida Maliepaard (70), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van der Kruk (57), Loosduinen
• Catharina Elisabeth van Zeijl (84), Maastricht
• Desire Bonne (87), Zeveneken
• Bernardina Maria Josephina Goosen (65), Amsterdam
• Christina van Boven (74)
• Alvie Edward Peters (53)

• 1966 » Juan María Solare, Argentinian pianist and composer
• 1966 » Nigel Martyn, English footballer and coach
• 1967 » Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Joe Rogan, American actor, comedian, and television host
• 1967 » Massimiliano Allegri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1967 » Petter Wettre, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 1968 » Charlie Sexton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Sophie Okonedo, British actress
• 1970 » Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager
• 1970 » Gianluca Pessotto, Italian footballer

• 1956 » Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
• 1961 » Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910)
• 1963 » Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)
• 1979 » J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)

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.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
• April 11 » Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
• July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
• 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.
• December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

The temperature on August 11, 1968 was between 12.6 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.