About the day » Thursday January 20, 1966Calender converter

• Francien van Rijn († 1980)
• Marcus Wilhelmus Gerardus Vahsen, Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Gabrielle Helene Marie van Bentum, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Helena Kornelia Stuij, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 2016)
• Ida Christine Giessen, Hattem († 1966)
• Marc Eduard M. PALMEN († 1986)
• Peter Hoving, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Ida Christina van der Giessen, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1966)
• ? Verweg, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland († 1966)
• Hamers, Tilburg († 1966)

• Arnold Aberson (72), Olst
• Anna Kooiman (84), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Paulus Johannes Franciscus Fransen (56), 's-Gravenhage
• Bastiaan Heij (80), Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Barbara Maria Hubertina Ludovica Wilihelmina OPPERMANN (74), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Barend van Sluijters (61), Doetinchem
• Bertha Maria Sidonia Meeus (63), Korbeek-lo
• Antonie Snijders (87), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Philippe" Marie Ghislain de Hemptinne (71), Waarschoot, Belgique
• Barend Philippus Wijnandts (82)

• 1964 » Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1964 » Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 » Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
• 1965 » Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer defender and manager
• 1965 » John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 » Sophie, Countess of Wessex
• 1965 » Warren Joyce, English footballer and manager
• 1966 » Rainn Wilson, American actor
• 1967 » Kellyanne Conway, American political strategist and pundit
• 1967 » Stacey Dash, American actress and television journalist

• 1954 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
• 1971 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)

• 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 » 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.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• June 8 » An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
• July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
• December 27 » The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

The temperature on January 20, 1966 was between -6.3 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.