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• Ali Reza Pahlavi, Tehran († 2011)
• René de Kwaadsteniet, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel († 1966)
• Frederika Johanna Maria Tielenius Kruythoff, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jacob Johannes PRETORIUS
• Sandra Willard, Laren N.H († 1996)
• MacHaele Renee, California, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Ron van der Sanden, Tilburg († 1992)
• Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Téhéran, Iran († 2011)
• Gilles Herbay († 1968)
• Herman van Ginkel, Barneveld († 1967)

• ANNIGJE SNIJDER (70), HARDENBERG
• Adriana Petronella van Kooten (64), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Van Dyck Jozef Cornelis (73), Merksplas, Antwerpen, België
• Clara Christina Ansink (65), Almelo
• Berbera Loch (92), Wessem, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Marinus (47)
• Catharina Boks (73), Amersfoort
• Antonius van Dorst (80), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Hermanus Scholten (79), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annigje Snijder (70), Hardenberg

• 1964 » Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
• 1964 » Barry Larkin, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1964 » L'Wren Scott, American model and fashion designer († 2014)
• 1964 » Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
• 1964 » Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
• 1965 » Jennifer Rardin, American author († 2010)
• 1966 » John Daly, American golfer
• 1966 » Too Short, American rapper, producer and actor
• 1967 » Chris White, English engineer and politician
• 1968 » Howard Donald, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1962 » Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Richard Hughes, American author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (b. 1897)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Petra
5. Anna
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.
• March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
• June 8 » An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
• June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• September 30 » Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
• November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on April 28, 1966 was between 5.5 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.