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• Kornelia Boersma, Grijpskerk († 1989)
• Gijsbertus Henricus Schimmel († 2015)
• Linda Huisman, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Pieter Herman Stoeten, Ommen († 1966)
• Laurie Kay Tazelaar
• Anna Catharina Rolfes († 2012)
• Bauke Dootjes († 2017)
• Anna Catharina († 2012)
• Conny Snelders, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Bastiaan Philip van Dijk, Duivendrecht (Ouder Amstel) († 2020)

• Van Kerckhoven Jozef (63), Mechelen, Antwerpen, België
• Bernardus Hendriks Douma (84), Opeinde
• Anton Veldhuis (67), Dalfsen
• Agatha Petronella Anthonia van der Velde (64), Den Haag
• Antonia van Schendel, Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Helena van den Berg (79), Leiden {ZH}
• Antonius Marinus van den Heuvel (66), Wanroij
• Clifford Lafayette Worsham Sr (69), Durham County, North Carolina, United States of America
• Alma Easter Godby Dick [sWks2FdgqggScnceHlBu] (67)
• Catharina Maria van Betuw (76)

• 1964 » Paul Baxter, English footballer
• 1965 » Miguel Leal, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1965 » Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey and soccer player († 2009)
• 1966 » Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
• 1966 » Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager
• 1967 » David J. C. MacKay, English physicist, engineer, and academic
• 1967 » Harvey Williams, American football player
• 1967 » Sherri Shepherd, American actress and talk show panelist
• 1968 » Bimbo Coles, American basketball player and coach
• 1968 » Jo Angel, Australian cricketer

• 1949 » Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1951 » Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)
• 1956 » Walt Faulkner, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Ronald
10. Pieter
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.
• June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.

The temperature on April 22, 1966 was between -1.1 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.