About the day » Thursday August 8, 1968Calender converter

• Marcus Weber, Duisburg, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1968)
• James Joseph Allen Jr., Oak Park, IL
• Ronald Theodorus Bouwmeester, Apeldoorn († 1968)
• Scott Stephen Corey, Washington, District of Columbia, United States († 1998)
• Bernard Georg Konink, Almelo († 2010)
• Justin Heath Runestad, Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, VS († 1996)
• Johannes Roelofs van der Velde († 1990)
• Anita Litjens, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 2003)
• Rosa Marie Henry, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands († 1980)
• franciscus (frank) wilms, helden-grashoek

• Anna Angela, Annie Alice Lübbers (91), Grayson County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Hendrika van den Bos (85), Breda
• Cornelis Kemmers (74)
• Catharina Wilhelmina STARING (88), Hilversum, 4624, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Daisy Isabel Ottey (77), Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica
• Aaltje Harmanna Oving (67)
• Cornelius (Cornelis) Eickholt (80), Knokke-Heist, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Angela - Annie Alice Lübbers (91)
• CATHARINA WILHELMINA STARING (88), Hilversum
• AMANDA STEFFEN (79), Durant, Cedar, Iowa, United States of America

• 1966 » Chris Eubank, English boxer
• 1966 » John Hudek, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 » Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 » Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1968 » Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist († 2013)
• 1968 » Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Yvie Burnett, Scottish soprano
• 1969 » Faye Wong, Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1969 » Monika Tsõganova, Estonian chess player
• 1970 » Trev Alberts, American football player and journalist

• 1959 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1882)
• 1975 » Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1979 » Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (b. 1910)
• 1980 » Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)

• 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.
• January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
• March 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
• November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 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 8, 1968 was between 14.1 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.