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• Karsje van der Heijde, Westerhaar († 1966)
• Billijo Ann Dyer, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Marie Bertin († 1969)
• Nicole Buissing, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Michael Gerardus Bancart
• William Klaas Doeven, Bedum († 1994)
• Mark-Alexander Willem Nuis, Hoogvliet, gemeente Poortugaal († 2020)
• Antje Lich, R”derhof (Germany)
• Reinardus Nicolaas van Heerwaarden, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2016)
• Marijke Overbeeke, Arnhem († 2011)

• Arie Pieter Lanser (85), Dordrecht
• Anje Everts de Vries (72), Garnwerd
• Blanche Lillian Marsh (70), Lima, Allen Co.Ohio
• Agathe Overbeek (79)
• Atje Strijbis (62), Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje “Anna” Klaasdr Groot (82), Orange City, Sioux, Iowa, United States
• Antonie Arnoldus Konings (73), Schiedam
• Adriana Maria van EIJCK (87), Oosterhout, 4070, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Eijck (87), Oosterhout
• Albert Visser (79), Harlingen, Netherlands

• 1963 » Brendan Coyle, English actor
• 1965 » Shane Flanagan, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1966 » Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese wrestler and promoter, co-founded Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling
• 1966 » Philippe Etchebest, French chef and television host
• 1967 » Mary Creagh, English scholar and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
• 1968 » Darryl Kile, American baseball player († 2002)
• 1968 » David Batty, English footballer
• 1968 » Lucy Liu, American actress and producer
• 1968 » Nate Mendel, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1968 » Rena Sofer, American actress

• 1953 » Reginald Baker, Australian rugby player (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Trần Trọng Kim, Vietnamese historian, scholar, and politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)
• 1957 » Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1966 » Giles Cooper, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1966 » L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1969 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Kliment Voroshilov, Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)

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.
• January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• April 30 » The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 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.
• June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.

The temperature on December 2, 1966 was between 5.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.