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• 'n Levenloos geboren kind van Kranenburg, Leiden († 1966)
• Jannie de Vries († 1992)
• George Robert , Jr. Powell, Whiteville, Columbus County, North Carolina († 1966)
• Carol Ann Scardino, New Orleans, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Albertus Jan van Frankenhuyzen († 2023)
• Jannie de Vries († 1992)
• Michèle Gooren, Oeffelt († 2000)

• Anna Maria van Haren (82), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartha Fredrika Maria Cornelia Roloffina Blankenberg (79), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Augusta Victoria SCHÖNENBERGER (77), Haguenau,67500,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE
• Camiel Verhamme (93), Wondelgem
• Bote IJnze de Jong (60), Groningen
• Alle de Vries- (86), Bedum, Nederland
• Cornelis Lambregts (72), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Willems LODEWIJK (80), West Terschelling
• Anna Catharina Kroes, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annigje Okkes *Huizinga (93)

• 1964 » Hape Kerkeling, German actor and singer
• 1964 » Michael Foster, American drummer
• 1964 » Ross Harrington, Australian rugby league player
• 1965 » Joe Ausanio, American baseball player and coach
• 1966 » Dave Harold, English snooker player
• 1966 » Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs
• 1966 » Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician
• 1966 » Martin Taylor, English footballer and coach
• 1967 » Jason Dozzell, English footballer and manager
• 1967 » Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor

• 1963 » Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)
• 1964 » Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Ronald
10. Pieter
11. Marcel
12. Johan
13. Willem
14. Jacob
15. Michael
16. David

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Petra
5. Anna
6. Ingrid
7. Elisabeth
8. Jolanda
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.
• March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
• July 30 » England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
• August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
• August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
• October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
• November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

The temperature on December 9, 1966 was between 3.3 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.