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• Sylvia Appels († 1992)
• Clovis Weber, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1981)
• NN Bremmers, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1966)
• Keane A Laakson († 2012)
• Alida janny Groenhoff, Amsterdam († 1966)
• Mr. Allard Frederik Sjollema, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Thomas Norbert Beyke, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1982)
• Sylvia Plooij, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Augustijn Wegner (84), Hoogstraten, Provincie Antwerpen
• Albert Tuijp (81), Volendam
• Albertje Viening (89), Hoogezand-Sappemeer
• Antonia Johanna Maria Schram (64), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Hes (82), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Elisabetha Mathilda Verheggen (91), Lottum
• Adrianus Hoevenaars (86), Sint-Michielsgestel
• Baltus Lekkerkerker (82), Driebruggen
• Ardrie Johannes van Kruijl (89), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anneke VROOMEN (0), Eindhoven (NL/NB)

• 1963 » Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer and author
• 1963 » Conrad Lant, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1964 » Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
• 1965 » Bernard Hopkins, American boxer and coach
• 1965 » James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
• 1965 » Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
• 1966 » Lisa Lisa, American R&B singer
• 1967 » Ted Tryba, American golfer
• 1968 » Chad Lowe, American actor, director, and producer
• 1969 » Delino DeShields, American baseball player and manager

• 1959 » Regina Margareten, Hungarian businesswoman (b. 1863)
• 1964 » Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist (b. 1905)
• 1967 » David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1968 » Bill Masterton, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 1970 » Frank Clement, English race car driver (b. 1886)
• 1970 » William T. Piper, American engineer and businessman, founded Piper Aircraft (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Daisy Ashford, English author (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Coleman Francis, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Harold D. Cooley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1897)

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.
• February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• 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.
• April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
• August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

The temperature on January 15, 1966 was between -6.0 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.