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• Dirk van der Gaast, Oosterzee († 2022)
• Mathieu van den Hurk, Horssen
• Nelleke Jekel, Maassluis († 1993)
• Etienne Morrien, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Ribberink († 2017)
• Robert van Brummelen, Maarsbergen
• Francois Hamelink, Terneuzen Nederland († 1992)
• Fieke Elizabeth Kroon, Amsterdam († 2066)
• Johanna Martine Huis, 's-Gravenzande († 2013)
• Deborah Baars, Nieuw Vennep, gem.Hoofddorp NL († 2000)

• Adrianus Braber (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bernard van Straaten
• Adrianus Ketelaars (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Spruijtenburg (70), Hattem
• Van Wijk (70), Laren
• Aaltje Jans kleen (77), Nieuwleusen, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Maria Cornelia van der Linden (28), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonette KUYPER (78), Carmel, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Arthur Richard Verbrugghen (67), Merelbeke
• Adrianus BRABER Azn (81), Den Haag, NL-ZH

• 1962 » Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, and director
• 1962 » Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Jeff Ament, American bass player and songwriter
• 1963 » Rick Rubin, American record producer
• 1964 » Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
• 1965 » Jillian Richardson, Canadian sprinter
• 1965 » Rod Woodson, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1966 » Mike Timlin, American baseball player
• 1968 » Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach († 2015)

• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1958)

• 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 14 » Australian currency is decimalized.
• March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
• June 13 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on March 10, 1966 was between 4.6 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.