About the day » Thursday January 13, 1966Calender converter

• Gemma Mulder († 1983)
• Frank Grutters, Boxmeer,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Dennis Arthur Goodell, Reedsburg (Sauk County) (New York) († 2009)
• - Hoogstede, Kampen († 1966)
• José Kroon († 2010)

• Adriana v.d. Giessen (83)
• Adrianus Verbaten (57), Heerlen
• - Hoogstede (0), Kampen
• Albertina Julie Johnson (65)
• ADRIANA KALLE (81)
• Bareld Wytzes Ettema (76), Boelenslaan, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Ernest Albert Theofiel Vermandel (76), Koewacht
• Anthonius Jacobus Nijssen (44), Den Helder
• August Bernard Zoellner (91), Perryville, Perry, Missouri, United States
• Aart van Ginkel (89)

• 1962 » Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 » Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 » Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
• 1966 » Leo Visser, Dutch speed skater and pilot
• 1966 » Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
• 1968 » Mike Whitlow, English footballer and coach
• 1969 » Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
• 1969 » Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist
• 1970 » Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer
• 1970 » Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist († 2004)

• 1956 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
• 1963 » Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1974 » Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
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.
• January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
• October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on January 13, 1966 was between -5.8 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.