About the day » Monday October 3, 1966Calender converter

• Carla Jane Beerkens, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand († 1972)
• Keith Warren Salle († 1968)
• Conny Astrid KROOK, Hoogvliet,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Gunter De Wachter, Bornem († 1996)
• Monica Anna Maria KNOOK († 1974)
• Wichma van den Born († 2007)
• Gerbrand Pieter Farjon, Amsterdam
• Frank Pieter Van AARTSEN, Heerde († 1992)
• Cornelis Jan Ronald Van Der Leeden, Schermerhrn († 2023)
• Marco (Mark) Drenth, Deventer

• Andrea Pieternella Johanna Oltmans (54), Montreal
• Clarence Herschel Harvey (66)
• Antonia Cornelia de Bekker (78), Oisterwijk
• Anna Helena Jobst (79), Bloemendaal
• Anna Johanna Mulder (68), Gouda
• Anna Johanna Mulder (68), Gouda
• Agnes Hannah** LECHEMINANT (79), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Bernardus Antonius Bakker (63), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clementina Meert (89), Aalst, Alost, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Bertha Brand (74), Neptune Twp., Monmouth Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten

• 1964 » Clive Owen, English actor
• 1965 » Annemarie Verstappen, Dutch swimmer
• 1965 » Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
• 1966 » Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Chris Collingwood, English-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1967 » Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrator
• 1968 » Donald Sild, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1968 » Greg Foster, American basketball player and coach
• 1968 » Marko Rajamäki, Finnish footballer and manager
• 1968 » Paul Crichton, English footballer and manager

• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)

• 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.
• June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• July 8 » King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
• July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
• September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
• 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 3, 1966 was between 13.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.