About the day » Tuesday May 3, 1966Calender converter

• Bessel van de Brug († 2002)
• Bonita Miller († 1966)
• Lee Kenton Dykstra, Orange City, IA (US) († 1982)
• Ann Moesen, Bree,, Limburg, België († 1988)
• Trevor Alan Rubingh, Jos, Negeria
• Jens Wichmann, Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1969)
• Pieter de Vries
• Sharon Radina Beckstead, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States († 2000)
• Hendrik Hoeve, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Ilse Bakker, Ransdorp († 1966)

• Bonita Miller (0)
• Cecilia Van Schie (59), Voorburg
• Celina Elisa Celestina Van der Herten (71), Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Dientje Frouwke Dijkema (53), Warffum, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Jongkind (53)
• Adrianus Henricus van der Schoot (88), Spoordonk
• Dirkje de Boer (82), IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Christianus Hubertus van den Heuvel (84), Dongen
• Catharina Boersma (74), Groningen
• Anna Margo Lize Schoonderbeek (68), Hilversum

• 1964 » Ron Hextall, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1964 » Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter
• 1965 » Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch
• 1965 » John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1965 » Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
• 1965 » Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
• 1966 » Frank Dietrich, German politician († 2011)
• 1966 » Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
• 1967 » Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
• 1967 » Kenneth Joel Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian

• 1948 » Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
• 1949 » Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Zakir Husain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1972 » Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)

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 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• May 15 » After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.
• August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• August 29 » The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
• September 30 » Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.

The temperature on May 3, 1966 was between 10.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.