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• Hans Middelkoop († 2017)
• Jan van den Berg, Willige Langerak (Schoonhoven) († 2024)
• Marius Zacharais Dreyer, Boksburg, Zuid Afrika († 2006)
• Johan Reinier (II) Berk, Kampen († 2015)
• Johannes (Hans) Middelkoop, Leerdam († 2017)
• Johannes Derk Hans Minke († 2002)
• Johannes Middelkoop, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Johan Reinier (Reinier) Berk, Kampen Overijssel Nederland († 2015)
• Dominique Ruiter († 1969)
• Johan Folgers Jensema, Groningen († 2018)

• Charles Alexandre Briffault (65), Courbevoie, 92400, Francia
• Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge (61), Gorinchem,Gemeente Gorinchem,South Holland,Netherlands
• Catharina Adriana Bakker (87), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Constantijn Frederik Graaf van Castell-Castell (68), Würzburg, Unterfranken, Beieren
• Arie Johannes de Leeuw (45), Gouda
• Berendina Ferkranus (72), Groningen
• Antonina Krzeska (76)
• Antonia Josefina Spijkers (89), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Annette Maria van 't Lindenhout (92), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Claresse Krook (74)

• 1963 » Bobby Dall, American bass player
• 1964 » Britta Lejon, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1965 » Arnold Clavio, Filipino journalist
• 1965 » Nick Boles, English businessman and politician
• 1965 » Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host
• 1966 » David Schwimmer, American actor
• 1967 » Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 » Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1967 » Simon Hill, English-Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 » Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer († 2019)

• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Nhu, Vietnamese activist, archivist, politician, and tactical strategist (b. 1910)
• 1966 » Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1966 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)

• 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.
• April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• October 17 » The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on November 2, 1966 was between -4.0 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.