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• Ellen Jans († 2003)
• Sandra Muts, Purmerend († 1991)
• Jan Bart Ellen († 1968)
• Al Martino Forbes († 1988)
• Karan Joy BURR († 2017)

• Bernardus Johannes Beekman (83), Doetinchem
• Cornelis Renssen (35), Terwolde
• Anna Catharina Helsen (88), Herentals, België
• Akke Westra (77), Leeuwarden, Nederland
• Albert Tichgelaar (65), Appingedam
• Adolfine van Aaken van Schaardenburg (86), Utrecht
• Arnoldus CASTRO (74), Detroit,Wayne County,Michigan,Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Levina Cornelia de Feijter (71)
• August Joseph Claerhout (72), Sint-Elooiswinkel
• Catharina van Sorge (75), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland

• 1965 » Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer
• 1966 » Ken Levine, American video game designer, co-founded Irrational Games
• 1966 » Tim Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
• 1967 » David Whissell, Canadian engineer and politician
• 1967 » Steve Pemberton, English actor, screenwriter and director
• 1968 » Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist († 2001)
• 1969 » Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1970 » David Fairleigh, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1970 » Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
• 1970 » Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author

• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)
• 1974 » Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Albert Speer, German architect and author (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Władysław Gomułka, Polish activist and politician (b. 1905)

• 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 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• 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."
• October 14 » The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
• November 27 » Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

The temperature on September 1, 1968 was between 12.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.