About the day » Wednesday November 16, 1966Calender converter

• Ross Alan DALENBERG, Harvey Cook County Illinois U.S.A († 1966)
• Wim van Leijenhorst, Ede († 2001)
• Albert-Jelle Bangma, Oosterzee (FRL) († 2006)
• Hendrikus Peter Anna Sophia (Harold) Mestrom, Sittard, Gemeente Sittard-Geleen, Limburg, Nederland († 2010)
• Alexandra Jacqueline Visscher
• Catharina Coelestina Martina Peltzer, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Daryl Feenstra, Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California, Verenigde Staten († 1966)
• Hindrik Pieter Boersma, Briltil (gem. Westerkwartier) († 1969)
• Johannes Zeestraten, Broekhem, Limburg, Nederland († 1987)

• Anna Wilhelmina Cornelia van Vugt (66)
• Adriana Maria Bax (65), Meerkerk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Wilhelmina de Smit (80), Blaricum (Noord-Holland)
• Charles Madison Gunn (79), Cordell, Washita, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Geertruida SETTELS (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Bax (65), Meerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Francisca (Sjaan) Grootens (60), Breda, NB, Nederland
• Alida Boekelaar (62), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries den Besten (77), Rijswijk (Zh Nederland
• franciscus vogelzang (66), den haag

• 1964 » Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, English businessman and politician
• 1965 » Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
• 1966 » Christian Lorenz, German keyboard player
• 1966 » Dave Kushner, American guitarist
• 1966 » Dean McDermott, Canadian-American actor and producer
• 1966 » Joey Cape, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1966 » Stephen Critchlow, English actor
• 1966 » Tahir Shah, English journalist, author, and explorer
• 1967 » Craig Arnold, American poet and academic († 2009)
• 1967 » Lisa Bonet, American actress and director

• 1950 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1961 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1972 » Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, author, and educator (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Jack Foster, English cricketer (b. 1905)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Ronald
10. Pieter
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 28 » A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
• April 30 » The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.
• June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.

The temperature on November 16, 1966 was between 3.2 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 20.8 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.