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• Evert Hakvoort, Urk († 1977)
• Thomas William Hatch, Seattle, King Co, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Evert Schiphorst, ,, Amsterdam,, North Holland, Netherlands († 2019)
• Constance Renea Love, J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hosp., Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina († 1966)
• Carolus (Carel) Theodorus Johannus Glatz, Utrecht
• Petronella Maria van Tunen, Limmen († 2021)
• Franky Zoetaert, Eeklo († 1970)
• Eline Sarah van der Wal, Delden, Overijssel, Nederland

• Catharina Lokerse (93), Goes (Zld)
• Cornelis Provily (78), unbekannt
• Bertha Augusta VANHOOREN (94), Oostende
• Charles Boynton van den Heuvel (52)
• Christiaan Jan Baptist du Croo (67), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jacob Provily (78), Ridderkerk
• Aartje Jonker (76), Emst
• Agatha Philopina Beckers (85), Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• Christina Lambert (83)
• jilt visser (91), liossens

• 1965 » Alexander Hacke, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 » Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1965 » Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor and producer
• 1965 » Volodymyr Horilyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach
• 1966 » Luke Perry, American actor and producer († 2019)
• 1966 » Stephen Williams, Welsh lawyer and politician
• 1966 » Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 » Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
• 1967 » David Starr, American race car driver
• 1967 » Jay Grdina, American businessman and pornographic actor

• 1958 » Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1965 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Stanley Morison, typographer, known for work on Times New Roman font (b. 1889)
• 1968 » Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1976 » Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author, screenwriter, and songwriter (b. 1897)

• 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 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
• February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• May 15 » After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.
• August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".

The temperature on October 11, 1966 was between 4.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.