About the day » Monday September 16, 1968Calender converter

• Safet Osman, Skopje (Macedonië) († 1996)
• Bernardus Marinus Weening, Maassluis
• Maurice Antoine Peter Fijnaut, Heerlen († 2018)
• Ann Michelle Kruse, Cottonwood Co., MN († 2008)
• Heidi Wilhelmina Liduina Friedrich, Rotterdam
• Hinderikus Hofman, Oude Pekela († 2019)
• Mireille Huberdina Henriette Jacobs, Nieuw Buinen (Borger)
• Safet Osman, Skopje,Macedonië († 1996)
• Carla Maria van Kouteren, Oude Tonge († 1977)

• Barteld (Bart) Bakker (67), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Admiral Dewey Spoor (70), Los Angeles-CA-USA
• Antje Klaassina WESTRA (67)
• Annegjen Leurink (68), Emmen (Dr Nederland
• Adriaan Jacob Vaders (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Emily May Griffiths (75), Newtown, New South Wales, Australia bur Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park
• Aarden (76)
• Aalderk Lindeman (83), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Jozef Vermeij (61), Oudewater
• Albert Samuel HINGSTON (82)

• 1966 » John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician
• 1966 » Kevin Young, American hurdler
• 1966 » Scott Workman, American stuntman and actor († 2013)
• 1966 » Wil McCarthy, American author and playwright
• 1967 » Hiroya Oku, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1968 » Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1968 » Tommy Keane, Irish footballer († 2012)
• 1968 » Walt Becker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1969 » Justine Frischmann, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1955 » Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1910)
• 1961 » Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915)
• 1965 » Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1965 » Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 » Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
• 1980 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)

• 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.
• April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
• April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
• April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War 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.
• December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
• 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 September 16, 1968 was between 11.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.