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• Maria Hendrika Troost, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Paul Andrew Hovenga, Hampton, Iowa († 2004)
• Petrus Jacobus Johannes Lakwijk, Rotterdam ZH-NL († 1966)
• Marc Verkerke, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jolanda Reuvers
• Antoinette Tuitman, Hoogvliet
• Patricia Maria Johanna de Groot, Antwerpen (Belgie) († 1977)

• Anna M Goldsberry (93), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Anthoon van Wijk (88), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Maria de Vreede (80), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Marie PERES (76), Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Catharina Jozina Deij (86), Oostburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alberta Johanna (Berta) van Heck (70), Helmond, Nederland
• Antonia Draad (75), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Belle Beatrice Smith (87), Fremont, Dodge, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Anton van den Heuvel (83), Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina van den Elshout (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1965 » Nigel Bond, English snooker player
• 1965 » Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
• 1966 » Rachel True, American actress
• 1967 » Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
• 1967 » E-40, American rapper and actor
• 1967 » François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 » Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
• 1967 » Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1967 » Wayne Harrison, English footballer († 2013)

• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1961 » Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1961 » Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
• 1966 » Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)
• 1966 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1970 » Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Pieter
10. Ronald
11. Marcel
12. Willem
13. Johan
14. Jacob
15. David
16. Richard

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Petra
5. Anna
6. Ingrid
7. Elisabeth
8. Jolanda
9. Yvonne
10. Cornelia
11. Petronella
12. Anita
13. Jacqueline
14. Catharina
15. Sandra
16. Karin

• 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
• February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• March 1 » The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
• July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• October 1 » West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.

The temperature on November 15, 1966 was between 2.8 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain during 9.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.