About the day » Thursday December 15, 1966Calender converter

• Dirk Frederickx, Sint-Truiden, België († 1992)
• Stuart Robert Bishop, Horsham, Sussex, England († 2018)
• Hendrik Roelof (Erik) Klein, Vinkenbuurt, Ommen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Franz Johannes Anthonius Grunenberg, Pannerden
• Joyce Ann McPherson, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2023)
• Marinus Minnekus Toet, 's-Gravenhage
• Deborah Ann Meeuwenberg, Californië, VS († 1994)
• Mariet Roex
• Brenda Marlene Regnerus, Canada († 2015)
• Pieter Johannes Maria van Rooij, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Agnieta Mur (84), Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bebzora (Isabelle) Johnson (91), Belcher, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
• Aaltje Scheffer (57), Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonetta-Maria Callaars (84), Millingen aan de rijn
• Benoit Joseph Dehaese (56), Andenne, België
• Aartje Johanna Vermeulen (77)
• Aartjen Luttikhuizen (87)
• André De Vries (77), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Elisabeth Johanna Beekmans (73), Breda
• Agnes Alyfare Toland (76), Osceola, Miss., AR

• 1963 » David Wingate, American basketball player
• 1963 » Ellie Cornell, American actress and producer
• 1963 » Helen Slater, American actress
• 1963 » Norman J. Grossfeld, American screenwriter and producer
• 1964 » Paul Kaye, British actor
• 1966 » Carl Hooper, Guyanese cricketer and coach
• 1966 » Molly Price, American actress
• 1967 » David Howells, English footballer and coach
• 1967 » Mo Vaughn, American baseball player
• 1968 » Garrett Wang, American actor

• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Karl Theodor Bleek, German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)
• 1974 » Anatole Litvak, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
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 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
• 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).
• November 4 » The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7m (22ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194cm (76in).
• December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.

The temperature on December 15, 1966 was between -1.7 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.