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• Robert Henstra († 2005)
• Sandra Stam, het Elisabeth Ziekenhuis in Alkmaar († 1969)
• Russell Noel Garriott, Gary, Lake, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Robert Matena, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Pieter Christiaan Swijgman, Amsterdam Noord Holland Nederland († 1992)
• Jan Harrie Jelsema († 1966)
• Barbara Soleman († 2014)
• Ingrid Caroline Feskens, Hoevelaken (..) († 1990)
• Lee Allen Uhlenhopp († 1986)
• antonia hendrika wilhelmina maria (yvonne) korsten, helden-beringe

• Adriana Johanna Petronella van Meel (36), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Adrianus van de Ven (47), Liempde
• Aaltje Zeewuster (79), Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen
• Ada Canter (69)
• Alfred DOBSON (61)
• Adrianus Diependaal (88), Heemstede
• Adriana Groeneveld (77), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Albert Merrell McDonald (82), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States
• Abram Petrus Stokhof de Jong (55), Vipiteno, Italie
• Alida Titia Potjer (74), Bussum

• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna
• 1964 » Michael Hagan, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1964 » Txiki Begiristain, Spanish footballer
• 1965 » Peter Krause, American actor
• 1966 » Tobias Ellwood, American-English captain and politician
• 1967 » Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
• 1967 » Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1967 » Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• 1968 » Thorsten Boer, German footballer and manager

• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Anna
5. Petra
6. Ingrid
7. Jolanda
8. Elisabeth
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.
• March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
• July 30 » England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
• August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

The temperature on August 12, 1966 was between 15.8 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.