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• Aad Kanters († 2009)
• Klaas Evert Romkes († 2022)
• Margaretha Maria de Ruijter, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Johanna Helena Maria Catharina (Marion) Lippold, Klazienaveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)
• Minca NOLTHUIS († 1993)
• Elles Cusveller, Hengelo († 2011)
• Rochelle Bagatell, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Henk van den Broek († 1986)

• Alijda Adriana Helmig (82), Beekbergen
• Annie McElhatton (71), Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Albertje van der Hoogen (86), Willemsoord (Steenwijkerwold)
• Arthur Miller Huting (83), Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Antonia Sukkel (73), Helmond, Nederland
• * Jozef Staarthof (86), Amsterdam
• Adriana Martina van Mensvoort (75), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Arie WILLEMSEN (72), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andrieske Horjus (80), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Bakker (73), Leiden

• 1965 » Greg Alexander, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1965 » Paul W. S. Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator
• 1966 » Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
• 1966 » Fiona Ma, American accountant and politician
• 1966 » Glen Nissen, Australian rugby league player
• 1966 » Grand Puba, American rapper
• 1966 » Helmut Mayer, Austrian skier
• 1966 » Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician, 55th Mayor of Sacramento
• 1966 » Mike Small, American golfer and coach

• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer, and politician, 8th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1976 » John Marvin Jones, American judge and politician (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, author, and critic (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian botanist and curator (b. 1912)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Ronald
9. Paul
10. Pieter
11. Marcel
12. Willem
13. Johan
14. Jacob
15. David
16. Michael

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.
• 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.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• October 17 » The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
• November 13 » In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
• December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.

The temperature on March 4, 1966 was between 1.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.