About the day » Thursday August 22, 1968Calender converter

• Michael Todd COOK, Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, United States of America († 1968)
• Richard Michael Goldstone, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Marion Kreding
• Elisabeth Murdoch, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia († 2012)
• Steven Louis Alexander Piceni, Mijdrecht († 1995)
• Humphry Siegel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Jean-philippe DREUX († 2011)

• Cornelis Johannes de Jonge (29), Bruinisse, Nederland
• Azuera Johanna Bronkhorst (89), Heerlen
• Cornelis Theodorus Janmaat (47), 'sGraveland
• Antoon Verberne (47), Deurne
• Cornelis Jacobsz van den Broek (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Alida Kraakman (77), Zevenaar
• Benjamin Fletcher Lewis (77), Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Lenselink (70), Voorst,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Hermina Zomerhuis (57), Teuge, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Cornelis van den Broek (84), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland

• 1966 » GZA, American rapper and producer
• 1967 » Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 » Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter († 2002)
• 1967 » Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian
• 1968 » Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 » Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian businesswoman
• 1968 » Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player († 2008)
• 1968 » Rich Lowry, American writer and magazine editor (National Review)

• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)

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 31 » American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
• April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
• July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
• 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 August 22, 1968 was between 12.0 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.