About the day » Saturday August 31, 1968Calender converter

• Henri Ipeus Piccardt Brouwer, Onbekend
• Matthew Roy Bushnell, Stockton, San Joaquin, California, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Paulo Cesar Kuhnen, Guararapes, São Paulo, Brasil († 1986)
• Esther Cecilla van Haaster, Hillegom, Noord Hollland, Nederland († 2011)
• Dirk Martin Laanstra
• Mulders, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• ANGELA VAN DEN BRANDEN (49), CLINGE,ZEELAND,NEDERLAND
• Albert Lammerink (79), Ommen
• Albert van den Berg (74), Wyckoff(NewJersey), Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Johannes Hollants (71), Tilburg
• Alphonsius Dominicus VAN HOOYDONCK (78), Kalmthout
• Berend Post (85)
• Adrianus Josephus Smulders (83), Eindhoven
• Agnes Lillian Belbin (born Martin) (78), Tasmania, Australia
• Albert Jan Alfrink (59), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Schets (85), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1966 » Lyuboslav Penev, Bulgarian footballer and manager
• 1967 » Anita Moen, Norwegian skier
• 1967 » Gene Hoglan, American drummer
• 1968 » Hideo Nomo, Japanese-American baseball player
• 1968 » Jolene Watanabe, American tennis player
• 1968 » Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician
• 1969 » Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer and referee
• 1969 » Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor and physician
• 1969 » Nathalie Bouvier, French skier
• 1970 » Debbie Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1963 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1965 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (b. 1891)
• 1968 » John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
• 1973 » John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)

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.
• February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
• October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
• October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• December 11 » The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.

The temperature on August 31, 1968 was between 13.2 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.