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• Frederika Berendina Schoneveld, Gorssel, Almen († 1988)
• Frederika Berendina Schoneveld, Almen (Gorssel) († 1988)
• Petrus Henricus Maria Franciscus van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Frederikus Jan Hamster, Leek († 2009)
• Ferdi Schroyen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2001)
• Ben Pankras, Gilze en Rijen († 1995)
• Adena Iona Stob
• Annelies Ravenhorst († 1968)
• Anna Jacoba KALFF, Montréal Québec Canada († 1987)
• Linda Machiels

• Alice Vanderwal (73), Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina STA (84), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Dorssen (75), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• A.C Minister zonder portefeuille in 't 2de kabinet Drees1952-1956 De Bruyn (80), Den Haag
• Adriana Maria van den Heuvel (77), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred James BELBIN (84), Maldon, Victoria, Australia
• Antje Jongkamp (88), Zwolle
• Albert Jansd Rotgers (88), Veele bij Vlagtwedde, gr.nld
• Age Ages Kalsbeek (87), Haren, Gem. Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Edward Charles Hahn (73), Huron County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten

• 1967 » Aleksandr Karelin, Russian wrestler and politician
• 1967 » Jim Abbott, American baseball player
• 1968 » Jimmy Bower, American drummer and songwriter
• 1968 » Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author
• 1969 » Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 » Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
• 1969 » Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer
• 1969 » Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer
• 1969 » Michael Symon, American chef and author
• 1969 » Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter

• 1955 » John D. Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1967 » Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
• 1972 » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1975 » Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
• 1978 » Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1985 » Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)

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. Esther
9. Elisabeth
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.
• January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
• February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• April 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 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).

The temperature on September 19, 1968 was between 9.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.