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• Shane Travers RILEY († 2000)
• Armand Alois Etienne VANDERSCHELDEN, Zwevegem, 34042, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2018)
• Mireille Julia Laurette Vanpachtenbeke, Brugge († 1997)
• Neeltje Wilhelmina de Pater, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)

• Antonio Dino da Costa Bueno (77), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alice carver (75), Australia
• Charles Henri Labouchere (86), Zeist
• Biewke van Duinen (71), Huizinge, Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland
• Charles Henri Labouchere (86), Zeist
• Antonia Wilhelmina Geerling (75)
• Albert Jan Wijenberg (72), Epe
• Cornelia de Buck (92), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Aafje Kooiman (40)
• cornelis christiaan van DIJK (81), nieuw lekkerland

• 1965 » Dan Abnett, English author
• 1965 » J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 » Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot
• 1966 » Brenda Romero, American game designer
• 1966 » Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 » Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor and voice over artist († 2015)
• 1966 » Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer
• 1967 » Becky Iverson, American golfer
• 1968 » Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
• 1968 » Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
• 1970 » Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930)
• 1971 » Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Gene Vincent, American musician (b. 1935)

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.
• January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
• November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• November 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on October 12, 1966 was between 4.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.