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• Carlo Steegmans, Hasselt, België († 1995)
• N.n. Brouwer, Urk († 1966)
• Sandra Witman, Abcoude
• João Paulo Machado Quental, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1993)
• Ellen SCHMEITINK, Emmeloord, Nederland, Flevoland, NO Polder

• Albertus Schuurman (74), Wisch
• Albert van den Berg (Horstra) (81), IJhorst
• Antje Gerrijts (76), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthony Ekkens (79)
• Anna Maria Catharina VAN HEES (67), Turnhout, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Antonius Marinus Aarhuis (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Noa (82), Lyndon Station, Juneau, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Wouterse (65), Assen
• Anna Maria Catharina VAN HEES (67), Turnhout,2300,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antje Gerrijts (76), Emmen Drenthe Nederland

• 1963 » Bret Michaels, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1964 » Davide Pinato, Italian footballer
• 1964 » Rockwell, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1965 » Robyn Malcolm, New Zealand actress
• 1965 » Sunetra Gupta, Indian epidemiologist, author, and academic
• 1967 » Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese manga artist, creator of Sailor Moon
• 1968 » Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
• 1968 » Mark McGrath, American singer-songwriter and television host
• 1968 » Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
• 1968 » Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy

• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
• 1972 » Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1910)

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.
• April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
• 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 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
• 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.
• November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on March 15, 1966 was between 0.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.