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• Hendrina Haerkens, Nijmegen († 2003)
• OG van Beelen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Kristina Ostermeier, Hannover († 2000)
• Hetty Erica Kusters, Buren (GL) († 2023)
• Annelies Genot, amsterdam, Nederland († 2014)
• Bobbi Gail Macintosh, Long Beach, California, Verenigde Staten
• Ruth Aulman, Albury, New South Wales
• Franciscus Marinus Vader, Auckland (Nieuw-Zeeland) († 1968)
• Andrine Cornelia Rovers, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Timothy Lloyd Todd, High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2019)

• Christiaan Frederik Boven (44), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia_Johanna van den Berg (70), Den Haag
• Aaltje JONGEDIJK (53)
• Catharina LANDSMAN (80), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Harlaar (69), Naaldwijk
• Charles Theodoor Stork (73), Alpine (Texas), Verenigde Staten
• Bastiaan Smouter (80), Scheveningen
• Alida Jantina Krooder (78), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje van 't Hoff (83), Zaandam
• Cornelis Marinus de Roo (55), Den Haag, 6000, Zuid-Holland, NL

• 1964 » Karl Sanders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 » Lisa Cholodenko, American director and screenwriter
• 1965 » Alfie Turcotte, American ice hockey player
• 1965 » Michael E. Brown, American astronomer and author
• 1965 » Sandrine Piau, French soprano
• 1967 » Joe DeLoach, American sprinter
• 1967 » Matt Bullard, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Ray Lankford, American baseball player
• 1967 » Ron Livingston, American actor
• 1968 » Ed Vaizey, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries

• 1934 » Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (b. 1842)
• 1934 » William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1871)
• 1947 » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Harry Brown, Australian public servant (b. 1878)
• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)

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.
• January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
• February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
• April 26 » A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

The temperature on June 5, 1966 was between 11.0 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.