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• Bouwe van Wijk († 1966)
• Mathilda Margaretha Maria Vos, Amsterdam
• Jennifer Nieuwenhuizen, Fairy Meadow, Australië
• Joan Marie van der Kamp
• Lubbert (Bert) Fidder († 2006)
• Lubbert (Bert) Fidder, Nunspeet († 2006)
• Cornelia Sara Lena Remeeus, Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Christiaan Huissen († 2016)
• Bouwe van Wijk, Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Alvaro González Lora Olmos, Phoenix, Arizona, Verenigde Staten († 1967)

• Adriaan Boelen (79), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adrianus Michael Theodorus Joannes Naninck (55), Tilburg
• Anna Carolina Hoeckx (82), Borsbeek
• Baukje Luitzens van der Wey (88)
• Adrianus Valstar (39), 's-Gravenhage
• Baukje Luitzensdr. van der Weij (88), Veenwouden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Louis van Dijck (59), Naarden
• Alida Nijhuis (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Johanna Liduina Nieberg (68), Amersfoort
• Allen V. Lyle Imlay (77), Akron, Ohio

• 1962 » Leon Robinson, American actor and producer
• 1964 » Kate Betts, American journalist and author
• 1965 » Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 » Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician
• 1966 » Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic
• 1967 » Joel Johnston, American baseball player
• 1968 » Michael Bartels, German race car driver
• 1968 » Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter
• 1969 » Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, Mexican footballer
• 1970 » Jason Elam, American football player

• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

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.
• 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 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
• October 1 » West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
• November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

The temperature on March 8, 1966 was between 3.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.