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• Niken Sipamurti Soeharso, Bandung, Indonesia († 2017)
• Julie Anita Blunk, GLENDALE, CA († 1983)
• TEUNIE JOHANNA KON, Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Koen Clinckspoor, Gent / Gand, België († 2001)
• Koen Clinckspoor, Gent,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2001)
• Roelf Prins († 1968)
• Paula Braun, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jeroen Keurentjes († 2016)
• Erwin Olaf Huizenga, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Delila Vandecasteele, Brugge, België († 2009)

• Antonius Andreas Jeuken (75), Leuth, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Antonius van Meer (22), Steenbergen, N-Br, NL
• Alida Jaantje Batenburg (61), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Arthur Ninyette (70), Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Annigje Ramp-Kremer (58), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Wilbrink (85)
• Annigje Kremer (58), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Johanna Scholten (71), Grieth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Leunissen (67), Nuth
• Alphonsine SCHALENBORG (80), Horpmaal, Limbourg, Belgique,, Belgique

• 1966 » Steven Johnson Leyba, American painter and author
• 1966 » Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian historian and politician
• 1967 » Chris Gatling, American basketball player
• 1967 » Luis Gonzalez, Cuban-American baseball player
• 1968 » Grace Poe, Filipino educator and politician
• 1969 » John Fugelsang, American comedian, actor, and talk show host
• 1969 » Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, model, and wrestler († 2004)
• 1969 » Matthew Offord, English journalist and politician
• 1969 » Noah Baumbach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer

• 1961 » Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1962 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1967 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893)
• 1969 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (b. 1871)
• 1970 » Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (b. 1885)

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 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• 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.
• May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

The temperature on September 3, 1968 was between 12.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.