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• Hendrik Pullen, Hardenberg († 1965)
• Renske Benthem, Winsum (gem. Het Hogeland)
• Dominiek Jerome Cappelle, Roeselare († 1992)
• Margaretha Gerarda Jozephina Hoogland, Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• de Haan, Harkema-Opeinde († 1965)
• Troy Ryan Molzahn, DENVER, COLORADO († 2000)
• Dominiek Jerome Cappelle, Roeselare († 1992)
• Margaretha Gerarda Jozefina (Gré) Hoogland († 2022)
• Diane Renee TeSelle
• Anita Bakkum († 1972)

• Andy S Burns (87)
• (84), Vreeswijk
• Arnoldus Albertus Greve (74), Delft
• Allegonda Johanna Berben (85), Balgoij, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wijnen (76), Breda
• Agnes van den Heuvel (81), Boxmeer
• Anthonia Petronella Segaar (82), Leiden
• Anna Maria Antonia Lips (53), Schiedam
• Antje Jochems (55), Utrecht
• Albertus Johannes Rutgers (70), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1963 » Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
• 1963 » Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 » Greg D'Angelo, American drummer
• 1963 » Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach
• 1963 » Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, President of Burundi
• 1964 » Don Beebe, American football player and coach
• 1964 » Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
• 1965 » Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer († 2012)
• 1965 » Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster

• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)

• 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
• February 8 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
• March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
• April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
• August 11 » Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
• October 28 » Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
• December 30 » Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.

The temperature on December 18, 1965 was between 11.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 26.9 mm of rain during 19.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.