About the day » Sunday August 21, 1966Calender converter

• Willebrord Pannekoek († 1980)
• Netty Molenaar († 1997)
• Petra Vollmuller, Rotterdam
• Raimond Morianner
• Annette van Oorspronk († 2016)
• Tammy Dawn Arnold, Bristol, Independent Cities, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Edvard Leonard Louis van de Bilt († 2016)

• Benjamin Pressley Barron (75)
• Anna Maria Meens (87), Heerlen
• Antonius Johannes Smits (48), 's-Hertogenbosch
• August van 't Hullenaar (54), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia (Anna) Anna Theunisse (83)
• Anne Binsma (74), Leeuwarden
• Agnes van Bourbon-Busset (76)
• Beatrice Kinney (83), Seattle, King Co., WA
• Albert van der Laan (75), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Alfons Henri (Beernem-Oedelem) DOMBRECHT (90)

• 1964 » Gary Elkerton, Australian surfer
• 1965 » Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
• 1966 » John Wetteland, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 » Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
• 1967 » Charb, French journalist and cartoonist († 2015)
• 1967 » Darren Bewick, Australian footballer
• 1967 » Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
• 1968 » Dina Carroll, English singer-songwriter
• 1968 » Goran Ćurko, Serbian footballer
• 1968 » Laura Trevelyan, English journalist and author

• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)

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.
• February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.

The temperature on August 21, 1966 was between 14.1 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.