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• Josephine Angelique Marie van Ruitenbeek, Den Haag
• Daniel Warren (Danny) BERENDS († 1969)
• Edwin Ronald Spaargaren († 2010)
• Edwin Ronald Spaargaren († 2010)
• David Perry Earman († 1966)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1966)
• Petronella Helena van Sommeren, Druten
• Erik Jonk († 2004)
• Petra Braun, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 2018)
• Artje Pastoor († 1970)

• Aaltje Romkes Zijlstra (77)
• Albert Langenberg (88), Zutphen
• Antonia Balemans (64), Breda
• Albert de Vries (69), Zuidlaren, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Romkes Zijlstra (77), Noordbergum
• Alexine Marie Elisa COEMANS (88), Lobbes, 56044, Hainaut, Belgique
• Charles Leslie Schenck (84), Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Adriana Maria Blewanus (81), Etten Leur
• Anna Maria JOOSTEN (91), Grote-Brogel,, Limburg, België
• Alijda Kenemans (56), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

• 1964 » Martin Vinnicombe, Australian cyclist
• 1965 » John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 » Manish Malhotra, Indian fashion designer
• 1965 » Valeriy Spitsyn, Russian race walker
• 1965 » Wayne Smith, Jamaican rapper († 2014)
• 1967 » Gary Allan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 » Falilat Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter
• 1968 » Lisa Marie, American model and actress
• 1968 » Lydia Millet, American novelist
• 1968 » Margaret Cho, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
• 1964 » V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1969 » Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)

• 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 12 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• February 26 » Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• 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.
• August 16 » Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

The temperature on December 5, 1966 was between 0.7 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.