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• John Richard Brandt († 2024)
• Katherine Michelle Brown, Fort Jackson, Richland, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Adje van Hooijdonk, Zevenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Marc Johan van Rooij, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• John van BRUGGEN, Soest († 2021)
• Pamela Denise Mcneil, Durham, North Carolina, United States († 1966)
• Catharina Adriana Maria van Eck, Breda († 1967)
• maria francis catharina (marian) van den beuken, helden-panningen
• Chad Alan de Boer

• Anna Frederica Maria Andrea Schoonebeek (82)
• Anna Maria van Muijden (59), Rotterdam
• Catharina Margaretha Lorié (75), Oostburg
• Bertus van Kuijk (78), Harmelen, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Schriever (72), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
• Anna Henrietta Weyers (79), Kaukauna, Outagamie county, Wisconsin (USA)
• Charles Auguste Louis DELEPIERRE (86), La Bassée,59480,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Adriana Gebuijs (85), Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Apolonia Verdonk (68), Goes
• Aafje Brinkman (78), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1965 » David S. Goyer, American screenwriter
• 1965 » Urszula Włodarczyk, Polish heptathlete and triple jumper
• 1966 » David Wright, English lawyer and politician
• 1966 » Dmitry Bilozerchev, Russian gymnast and coach
• 1966 » Marcel Schirmer, German singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1967 » Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1967 » Paul Morris, Australian race car driver and businessman
• 1967 » Rebecca Harris, English businesswoman and politician
• 1967 » Richey Edwards, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1995)
• 1967 » Stéphane Gendron, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1957 » Frank George Woollard, English engineer (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (b. 1901)
• 1960 » Ninian Comper, Scottish-English architect (b. 1864)
• 1962 » Ross McLarty, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Raymond Gram Swing, American journalist (b. 1887)
• 1969 » Enrique Peñaranda, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Godfried Bomans, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Sterling North, American author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Darryl F. Zanuck, American director and producer (b. 1902)

• 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 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
• February 14 » Australian currency is decimalized.
• June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
• July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
• November 15 » A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

The temperature on December 22, 1966 was between 2.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.