About the day » Friday August 19, 1966Calender converter

• Sherry Lynn Fowler
• Ramond Paul Zichterman, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2012)
• Valerie Ann Hess Carter, Crown Hill Memorial Cmetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio († 2000)
• Johan Leonard Vollmuller, Utrecht
• Christian Goudzwaard, Ridderkerk († 2021)
• Johanna Ottina van Santen, Beusichem († 1983)
• Marko Thomas Rakier, Delft († 1971)
• Auke Hendriks Mennega, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2003)
• Erik Cardoen, Geraardsbergen († 1966)

• Arie Cornelis van der Bijl (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Philomena Maria Lucia Johanna Haansbergen (62), Tilburg
• Christiaan Altena (69), Eefde, gemeente Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Laurentius van der Lans (53), Loosduinen
• Arthur Edouard Maria Meyer (69), Merksem (B)
• Christopher Arnold WHITE (75), Luton, Bedfordshire
• Catharina Smetsers (78), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aarn van der Vegt (72), Suameer
• Christina Rosalia Agnes van der Werf (74), Groningen
• ANTON BRANDES (74), 'S-GRAVENHAGE

• 1963 » Joey Tempest, Swedish rock singer-songwriter and musician
• 1963 » John Stamos, American actor
• 1965 » Hemant Birje, Indian actor
• 1965 » James Tomkins, Australian rower
• 1965 » Kevin Dillon, American actor
• 1965 » Kyra Sedgwick, American actress and producer
• 1966 » Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 » Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader
• 1969 » Matthew Perry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Nate Dogg, American rapper († 2011)

• 1957 » David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1976 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)

• 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.
• February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• March 16 » Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle.
• March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on August 19, 1966 was between 14.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.