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• Marco van Slobbe
• Alexandra Elisabeth Maria Kox, Amsterdam († 2017)
• Gerald Klein, Edmonton,Alberta,Kanada († 1998)
• Henriette Margaretha van Dijkhorst, Pretoria (ZA) († 2004)
• Bea Wijnholt, Hardenberg († 2021)
• Antoinetta Adriana Maria Smits, Drunen
• Annigje J. van Wijk († 2010)
• Kitty Dudok
• N.N. Bouw, Rotterdam († 1966)
• Moriah Burbon White [K |||], LaGrande,Oregon († 1966)

• Cornelia Tjipkes Feenstra (73)
• Cornelia Goossens (67), Raamsdonk
• Arnoldus Jacobus van Altena (59), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus Gerardus [Arnold Gerhard] Derksen (53), Nijmegen
• Catharina, Adriana de Weger (81), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Geertruida Maria Krijnen (47), Hilversum
• Charles Cornelis van den Broek (72), Zundert
• AW Kirpenstein (29), De Bilt, Gemeente De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agnes Crooks Aitken (57), Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Clara May Holler (90), Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, United States of America

• 1963 » Dan Povenmire, American animator
• 1963 » Jim Pocklington, English racing driver
• 1963 » John Powell, English-Canadian composer and conductor
• 1964 » Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer
• 1964 » Jens Henschel, German footballer
• 1964 » Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1966 » Tom Chorske, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
• 1968 » Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
• 1968 » Upendra Rao, Indian actor, director, and politician

• 1958 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 » Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1961 » Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880)
• 1967 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)

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 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• 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.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
• October 17 » The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
• October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.

The temperature on September 18, 1966 was between 5.7 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.