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• Gilles René Martial BRUN, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France († 2021)
• Wilhelmina Christina Maria Ettema, Alkmaar († 1966)
• Martin Valkhoff, Bennebroek
• Yvonne Willemina Schorfhaar, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1989)
• wilhelmus jacobus maria (wil) heussen, helden-beringe
• Sonja Everaert, Zele
• Leonardus van den Brink, Kerkrade
• Isabelle HOUBRACKEN, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jacobus Gerardus (Jaap) Horning, Amstelveen († 1988)

• Antonius Hinten (60), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Alberic Herman Van Hoe (67), Deinze, 9800, Gent, Oost Vlaanderen
• Bokke Postma (63), -
• Antonia Castillo (69), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Bruens (50), Zwolle
• Abraham Potjewijd (70), Den Helder
• Antje van Velzen (76), Hilversum
• Anna Maria Aldegonde Eugenie Imperiali Prinses van Francaville (88), Faulx-les-Tombes, Namen, Wallonië
• Antonia Wilhelmina Hendrika Elisabeth Vermeer (53), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Brouwer (64), Waalwijk (Noord-Brabant, NLD)

• 1963 » Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1963 » Randy Johnson, American baseball player and actor
• 1964 » John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
• 1966 » Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 » Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress
• 1968 » Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1968 » Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 » Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 » Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 » Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 » Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)

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. 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 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• March 16 » Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle.
• July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• 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.

The temperature on September 10, 1966 was between 6.3 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.