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• Geoff Bendle, Melbourne, Australia († 2002)
• Ellis De wit, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1976)
• Gijsbert Hendricus Tijmensen, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 2021)
• Herman Hengelaar († 1991)
• Wilhelm Soer († 2020)
• Wayne Paul WALTERS († 1987)
• Andries van der Galien († 2009)
• Robert P. LELLO († 2019)
• Ellen Petra Baak, Voorburg

• Barteld Berg van den (74), Genemuiden
• Annigje Kroesen (52)
• Bauke HUITEMA (73), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kremb (54), Bremen
• Albert Haveman (75), Dorr, Allegan, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Meines Klijnsma (86), Wolvega, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Martens (76)
• Anna Mae McClellan (70), Opelika, Lee, Alabama, United States
• Ana Emília de Carvalho (88), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonie Delissen (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1965 » Blue Edwards, American basketball player
• 1965 » Denis Irwin, Irish footballer and journalist
• 1965 » Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor († 2014)
• 1965 » Rob Rackstraw, English voice actor
• 1965 » Ruud Hesp, Dutch footballer
• 1966 » Ad-Rock, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1966 » Annabella Lwin, Anglo-Burmese singer-songwriter (Bow Wow Wow) and record producer
• 1966 » Koji Kanemoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 » Mike O'Malley, American actor and comedian
• 1967 » Vanilla Ice, American rapper, television personality, and real estate investor

• 1952 » Chit Hlaing, Burmese lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1960 » H. L. Davis, American author and poet (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Mesut Cemil, Turkish cellist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Sachin Dev Burman, Indian composer and singer (b. 1906)
• 1977 » C. B. Colby, American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)

• 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.
• March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
• March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
• November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

The temperature on October 31, 1966 was between -2.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.