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• Stephan van Elst, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2006)
• Lau Schreurs, Horn († 1969)
• Scottie Greene, Athens, Henderson, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1966)
• Colinda Antonia Berdina Pennings, Handel, Gemert-Bakel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Johannes Lodewicus Gerard Knapen, Roermond († 2002)
• Craig M. Cassidy, San Francisco, CA
• Anne-Sophie Vilain
• Cora Wennekes, Elst († 2010)
• Elles Johanna Theresia de Beurs
• leonie johanna louisa maria lemmen, helden-panningen

• Anna Angela Rohling (80)
• Bernard VRIELINK (62), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• C.A. Meeuwissen
• Anna Wuring (56), Sneek
• Alida Ruijg (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Cornelia Maria Bombeek (75), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertje Ham (74)
• Carlo Greppi (35), Lesmo, Italie
• Ange OGUILLARD (72), Champs Sur Marne, 77
• Anna Louisa Hubertina Hanckx (84), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland

• 1964 » Mats Wilander, Swedish-American tennis player and coach
• 1964 » Trey Gowdy, American lawyer and U.S. Representative
• 1965 » David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery († 2004)
• 1965 » Wendy Botha, South African-Australian surfer
• 1966 » GZA, American rapper and producer
• 1966 » Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1967 » Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 » Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter († 2002)
• 1967 » Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian

• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)

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. Elisabeth
8. Jolanda
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.
• February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
• March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
• September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".

The temperature on August 22, 1966 was between 12.4 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 10.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.