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• Gerrit van de Steeg, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2018)
• James Michael Foreman, Des Moines, Iowa, VS († 2011)
• Sharon May Wise, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia († 1979)
• Terri Lynn Flory, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas († 1989)
• Nicolaas Gerardus Johanna Adrianus (Nick) Valentijn, Eindhoven
• André Karel, Emmen
• Dirk Robert Urbain Van De Woestyne, Sleidinge († 1989)
• irene theresia cornelia (irene) boonekamp, helden-koningslust

• "Bernard" Noël Léon Piot (59)
• Antoon. Ten Harmsel (89), Michigan, United States
• Albert Steven Kiel (66), Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
• Abbie Annie Hiller (81), Belmond, Iowa
• Bouke van der Wal (81), Harlingen
• Cornelis Boot (87), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Catharina de Nobel (49), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Noordeloos (70)
• Cora Jane Royster Blanton [Bu] (80)
• Albert Koning (84), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1965 » A. L. Kennedy, Scottish comedian, journalist, and author
• 1965 » John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 » Otis Smith, American football player and coach
• 1965 » Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 » Valeria Golino, Italian actress
• 1966 » Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer
• 1967 » Oona King, Baroness King of Bow, English academic and politician
• 1967 » Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 » Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
• 1967 » Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier († 1994)

• 1954 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1956 » Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1972 » James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (b. 1926)
• 1973 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1979 » Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914)
• 1979 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)

• 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 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
• September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.

The temperature on October 22, 1966 was between 10.0 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.