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• Ludwig Eikenboom († 2020)
• Ronaldus Adrianus Brabander de, 's-Gravenzande († 1966)
• Ronaldus Adrianus de Brabander, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Johannes Sebastianus Theodorus Wilhelmina Bos, Ewijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberdina Harmanna Soetevent, Nieuw-Weerdinge († 2008)
• Ingrid Buitenhuis, Klarenbeek {GE} († 2007)
• († 1993)
• Franka Ooms, Eindhoven
• N.N. Horjus, Sneek († 1966)
• Barbara Marie Wasilewski, Chatham, Ontario, Canada

• Anna Elisabeth Freson (75), Bommershoven, België
• Adriana Maria van Wissen (78), Zoetermeer
• Berendina KRABBE (72), Enschede, Nederland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aimé Albert Dehullu (53), Roeselare
• Aaltje Pieters Visser (72), Koudum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Henderikus Wesseling (78), Schoonebeek, DRE, Nederland
• Bouwe Jan Machielsen (81), Enkhuizen
• Agnes Cornelia Hertsig (79), Breda
• Arie van Genderen (77), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Antonius Koppens (74)

• 1964 » Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1965 » José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach
• 1966 » Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 » Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 » Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1966 » Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer
• 1966 » Zachery Stevens, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 » Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1968 » Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

• 1963 » Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1963 » Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
• 1965 » Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1965 » Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)
• 1967 » Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (b. 1905)
• 1967 » Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)

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.
• February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
• February 26 » Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• February 28 » A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 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.

The temperature on March 5, 1966 was between 1.6 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.