About the day » Wednesday January 5, 1966Calender converter

• Jennifer A. ETTEMA († 1988)
• Nathalie Vanelderen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2010)
• Petra van den Hoek, Maassluis
• Gaby van Daatselaar, Sydney
• Edwin Bosgieter, Rotterdam († 2013)
• Werner Tierolf, Amsterdam

• Anna Mechtilda Ewijk, van (73), Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria Petronella Massa (70), Breda (Noord-Brabant, Nederland)
• Adolf Julius Stuempges (72)
• Anna, Maria van Tiggel (88), Vlimmeren
• Charles Leo Stine (81), Fremont, Sandusky Co.Ohio
• Alida Maria de Lange (73), Alkmaar
• Albert (Lubbinge) Lubbing (79)
• Casper van Eijk (84), Schiedam
• Anthony van Wezep (57), Elburg Gelderland Netherlands
• Aaldert Baars (70), Soest, Utrecht, NL

• 1961 » Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Danny Jackson, American baseball player and manager
• 1962 » Suzy Amis, American actress and model
• 1963 » Jeff Fassero, American baseball player and coach
• 1965 » Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
• 1965 » Vinnie Jones, English/Welsh footballer and actor
• 1968 » Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1968 » Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player and engineer
• 1969 » Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
• 1969 » Shaun Micheel, American golfer

• 1954 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Tevfik Rüştü Aras, Turkish physician and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
• 1976 » John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
• 1978 » Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
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.
• March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• July 6 » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
• August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
• November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

The temperature on January 5, 1966 was between -3.7 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.