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• adriana anna Evers, Brasschaat(belgie) († 1966)
• Maria Johanna Petronella van Oostveen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• adrienne anna evers, brasschaat belgie († 1966)
• Jantje Aaltje Kleine, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Henderika Brill († 1992)
• Martijn Pil, Schiedam
• Sandra Grootenboer († 2010)
• Marcel de Geest, De Cocksdorp (Texel, NH) († 2020)

• Artje Josina Richter (81), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Spreen (85), Groningen, Groningen (NL)
• Aaltje Borren (80), Apeldoorn
• Antje Spreen (85), Groningen
• Aris Bulk (84), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Antoon Roza (73), Schiedam
• Barbara Johanna Kerssens (68), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Kuiken (63), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Aagje Bien (64), Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (67), Knokke

• 1964 » Grant Gee, English film maker, photographer, cinematographer
• 1964 » Paul Bonwick, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1964 » Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 » Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek journalist and politician
• 1966 » Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
• 1966 » Simon Danczuk, English academic and politician
• 1967 » Esther McVey, English television host and politician
• 1967 » Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1967 » Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
• 1967 » Olo Brown, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player

• 1960 » Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)
• 1964 » Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1965 » Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1966 » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
• 1971 » Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1972 » Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)

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.
• 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.
• July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• October 1 » West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
• November 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

The temperature on October 24, 1966 was between 5.2 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.