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• Andreas Antonius Maria Kappert
• Brigitte Marianne Louisa Grauls, Hasselt, België († 1967)
• Jan Theodoor de Haan († 2001)
• Martin Brans, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Albert Ford Clark (88), Enid, Oklahoma
• Bastiaantje van Croonenborg (69), Heemstede
• Arie Jacob van Kampen (82), Delft
• Bertha Christina ter Weele (90), Enschede
• Antonius Bohnen (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Marie" Madeleine Valentine de Gourjault (85), Kerfily-en-Elven, Morbihan, France
• Aartje Janna de Vos (60), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria VAN DOORN (80), Oss, Gemeente Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Christina van Reeden (76), Dodewaard, Nederland
• Carrie Clark (56), Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States of America

• 1964 » Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
• 1965 » Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
• 1965 » Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician
• 1965 » Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
• 1965 » Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 » Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1967 » Stephen A. Smith, American sports television personality
• 1967 » Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 » Werner Daehn, German actor
• 1968 » Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter

• 1959 » Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1959 » Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
• 1965 » Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1965 » William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1969 » August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
• 1969 » Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)

• 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.
• 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.
• March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
• July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• October 14 » The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.

The temperature on October 14, 1966 was between 11.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.