* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1967 – Dirk Rehbein, German footballer

* 1967 – Andy Kapp, German curler

* 1906 – Franz Waxman, German film composer ( d. 1967 )

Jacob Grimm in his Deutsches Wörterbuch deplored the " unhochdeutsch " form Elf, borrowed " unthinkingly " from the English, and Tolkien was inspired by Grimm to recommend reviving the genuinely German form in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings ( 1967 ) and Elb, Elben was consequently reintroduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings.

* 1967 – Silke-Beate Knoll, German athlete

* 1967 – Uwe Daßler, German swimmer

* 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist ( d. 1967 )

* 1900 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor ( d. 1967 )

* 1967 – Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano

* 1967 – Richard Z. Kruspe, German guitarist ( Rammstein and Emigrate )

* 1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician ( d. 1967 )

* 1967 – Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 ) was a German statesman.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

* 1967 Jerusalem-Excavating 3000 Years of History, Aspects of Antiquity, London, 1967 ( also published in a German edition ).

Kabul Zoo was inaugurated in 1967, which was maintained with the help of visiting German zoologists.

* 1967 – André Olbrich, German guitarist and songwriter ( Blind Guardian )

* 1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German race car driver

* 1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician ( b. 1889 )

* 1889 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician ( d. 1967 )

* 1921 – Harald Quandt, German industrialist, stepson of Joseph Goebbels ( d. 1967 )

* 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player

The 1967 Kinks song " Harry Rag " was based on the usage of the name Harry Wragg as rhyming slang for " fag " ( i. e. a cigarette ).

In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.

The Doors were banned on September 17, 1967 after they were asked to remove the lyric " Girl, we couldn't get much higher " from their song " Light My Fire " ( CBS censors believed that it was too overt a reference to drug use ).

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

The single peaked at # 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash also made the song their own.

In 1967 she recorded the theme song for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice.

Many US soldiers adopted her song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '" as their anthem, as shown in Pierre Schoendoerffer's academy award winning documentary The Anderson Platoon ( 1967 ) and reprised in a scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 ).

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

* The John Coltrane song " Resolution " ( 1926 – 1967 ), from A Love Supreme

* " Omaha ", a song by Moby Grape, from their 1967 first album release, Moby Grape

Scott McKenzie's 1967 rendition of John Phillips ' song " San Francisco ( Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair )", which helped to inspire the hippie Summer of Love, became a homecoming song for all Vietnam veterans arriving in San Francisco from 1967 onward.

Scat singing is also featured by Louis Prima and others in the song " I Wan ' na Be Like You " in Disney's The Jungle Book ( 1967 ).

It features the opening title song " Reach For The Sun ( Summer Holiday )" ( released as a single to coincide with the film's release ) and a memorable music-fantasy sequence, where the Team perform a cover version of The Cowsills 1967 song " The Rain, The Park & Other Things ".

* Bowling Green ( song ), a 1967 single by The Everly Brothers

Dylan wrote the song " I'll Keep It with Mine " for her shortly thereafter, which she recorded for her first album, Chelsea Girl, in 1967.

* " Gaslight " ( Ugly Ducklings song ), a 1967 song by The Ugly Ducklings

From 1962 – 1967, Bert Kaempfert's instrumental " A Swingin ' Safari " was used as the theme ; a slightly different rendition ( Billy Vaughn's cover of the same song ) was used on the pilot.

* " The Letter " ( The Box Tops song ), 1967, later covered by Joe Cocker

Bonnie and Clyde were also the subject of a popular 1967 French pop song performed by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.