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• Gerrit Roddenhof, Ommen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2021)
• leonie helena petronella (leonie) lemmen, helden-dorp
• Bartholomeus Theodorus Hermanus van Dijk, Rijswijk († 2009)
• Gerrit Roddenhof, Ommen († 2021)
• Gijsbert Marinus de Bruin († 1978)
• Noël Boudewijn Rachel Vertommen, Rooienberg 21, Duffel († 1988)
• Anthonij Paul de Vroome († 2019)
• Victor de Rhoter († 1990)
• Michael John Mekking, Melbourne, Australië († 1970)
• Anton Albert Greven, Oss,Gemeente Oss,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1966)

• Charles Hector Jan Vergauwen (58)
• Charles Fisher Tharrington (71)
• Catharina Maria Petronella van Hoof- (87), Tilburg, Nederland
• Bessie Mills (85)
• Ate Vogelzang (75), Treebeek, Netherlands
• Anna Eijkemans (91), Rosmalen
• Ate Vogelzang (75)
• Aloijsius Jacobus Maria van Puijenbroek (69), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Petronella van HOOFF (87), Tilburg (Noord Brabant) (NL)
• Arthur Sandberg Dahl Sakariason (65), Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana

• 1964 » Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1964 » Dave Penney, English footballer and manager
• 1964 » Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter
• 1965 » Dottie Pepper, American golfer
• 1965 » Steve Gorman, American drummer
• 1966 » Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 » Jüri Luik, Estonian politician and diplomat, 18th Estonian Minister of Defense
• 1966 » Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder and stuntman
• 1967 » Michael Preetz, German footballer and manager
• 1968 » Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter († 2015)

• 1958 » Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Ronald
10. Pieter
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 1 » The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
• June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
• 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.
• October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".

The temperature on August 17, 1966 was between 7.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.