About the day » Saturday September 3, 1966Calender converter

• Carola van Diemen († 1992)
• Anna Antina Piersma, Groningen
• Frederik Boerwinkel († 2001)
• Pauline Souren († 1968)
• Lisa Maria Kikkert, West Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Corinne Coomans, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2022)
• Netty Vergouwe († 1982)

• Cornelis Karels (81), groede (zeeland)
• Clara Emily Ella Foreman (1951), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Bernardina Herweier (82), Bennebroek
• Colin Ernest Turton (18), (reg'd Young), NSW, AU
• Catharina Petronella Arkesteijn (56), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis OVERWEEL (80), Arnhem
• Catharina Maria Louis (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Maria Triesschijn (80), Amsterdm
• Christina Aagten (Agten) (86), Glanerbrug, 7534, Nederland
• Antonius Jacobus van Wanrooij (62), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1964 » Adam Curry, American-Dutch businessman and television host, co-founded mevio
• 1964 » Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2016)
• 1964 » Spike Feresten, American screenwriter and producer
• 1965 » Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer
• 1965 » Rachel Johnson, British journalist
• 1965 » Vaden Todd Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 » Steven Johnson Leyba, American painter and author
• 1966 » Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian historian and politician
• 1967 » Chris Gatling, American basketball player
• 1967 » Luis Gonzalez, Cuban-American baseball player

• 1961 » Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1962 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1967 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893)
• 1969 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (b. 1871)
• 1970 » Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (b. 1885)

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 14 » Australian currency is decimalized.
• March 1 » The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
• October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on September 3, 1966 was between 13.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.