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• N N Hoogma, Waalwijk († 1965)
• Colinda Toonen († 1995)
• Eric Hoogma († 1965)
• Doodgeboren kind van Elk, Rotterdam († 1965)
• Kirsti Elisabeth Hvidsand († 2016)

• Alle Hoekema (87), Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alfred David Ernest Eldridge (78), Dimboola
• Alma Edna Luplow (51), Wyandotte Wayne Michigan
• Cornelis Dijkers (77), Valkenswaard
• Catharina Sara Cornelia Vrouwenfelder (82), Ede
• Albert Veerman (63)
• Aaltje van 't Hul (77), Oldebroek (GL)
• Adrianus Oudshoorn (59), Leiden
• Charles DELAERE (63), Ingelmunster,8770,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Maria Kerremans (69), Breda, Noord Brabant

• 1964 » Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter
• 1964 » Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 1964 » Carsten Wolf, German cyclist
• 1964 » Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager
• 1964 » Mehriban Aliyeva, 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan, goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO.
• 1964 » Torsten Schmitz, German boxer
• 1964 » Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1965 » Chris Burke, actor
• 1965 » Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and academic
• 1966 » Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach

• 1956 » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
• 1966 » W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1972 » Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 » H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Elisabeth
5. Ingrid
6. Anna
7. Cornelia
8. Yvonne
9. Jolanda
10. Petra
11. Catharina
12. Linda
13. Anita
14. Jacqueline
15. Karin
16. Wilhelmina

• 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.
• March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
• March 18 » Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• May 1 » Cross-Strait relations: Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, takes place.
• August 9 » Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
• December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
• December 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

The temperature on August 26, 1965 was between 10.0 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.