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• Hans Stob, Tilligt
• Claire Aimée Walkate, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
• Tineke Klok, Den Helder († 2005)
• de Leeuw († 1966)
• Josephus Dionysius Maria Harkx, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Robyn Lynn Swartz, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa († 2020)
• Gerard van Dongen, Waspik,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)

• Charles Henry Snyder (63)
• Adrianus Boeren (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bartholomeus Haak (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Addison Carlyle Lewis (72), Jefferson County, Ohio
• Aagje Verwolf (81), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Clara Alida Versele (81), Aalbeke
• Clara Alida Versele (81), Aalbeke
• Aris Pijper (76), Westerblokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lommers (72), Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Zevenbergen (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1964 » Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 » Joe Wolf, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 » Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 » Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1966 » Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Karsten Neitzel, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer
• 1968 » Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1969 » Laurie Holden, American actress and model

• 1947 » Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1962 » Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1981 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Ronald
10. Paul
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 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
• July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
• August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The temperature on December 17, 1966 was between 2.4 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.