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• Susan Renae Vegter
• Anna Jocelyn Maria de Beurs, Amsterdam
• Jacoba VERMEER, Wageningen († 1969)
• Gerardus Cornelis Johannes Tielenius Kruythoff, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ed Sier († 2015)
• Marcus Antonius Maria (Marco) Morssink, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2007)
• Marcus Antonius Marie (Marco) Morssink, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2007)

• Adriana Johanna van Hagen (74), Delft,-
• Allen VanBuren Todd (56), Carman, Henderson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Betha Gerardina Claessen (52), Roermond
• Adrianus Jozef Vermeij (61), Oudewater
• Adriana Geertruida Goosen (80), Venray
• Anna Klaver (67), Hoogwoud
• Adriana Johanna Zieltjens (0), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Roock (70), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Boers (82), Krimpen aan de IJssel
• Adriaan Polak (72)

• 1965 » Kyle Chandler, American actor
• 1965 » Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog
• 1966 » Doug E. Fresh, American rapper and producer
• 1967 » Michael Carbajal, American boxer
• 1968 » Cheryl Strayed, American author
• 1968 » Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1969 » Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
• 1969 » Paul Varelans, American MMA fighter and wrestler

• 1953 » David Munson, American runner (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1965 » Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor and actor (b. 1930)
• 1971 » Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (b. 1937)
• 1972 » Akim Tamiroff, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Nicola Moscona, Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)

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 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
• March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
• November 17 » Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
• December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

The temperature on September 17, 1968 was between 10.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.