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• Robert Henstra († 2005)
• Sandra Stam, het Elisabeth Ziekenhuis in Alkmaar († 1969)
• Lee Allen Uhlenhopp († 1986)
• Robert Henstra († 2005)
• Barbara Soleman († 2014)
• Erik ter Denge, almelo
• Russell Noel Garriott, Gary, Lake, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Pieter Christiaan Swijgman, Amsterdam Noord Holland Nederland († 1992)
• Christine Marie Chamberlin, Ft. Snelling Hospital, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota († 2013)
• Bryan P Todd ?****, Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 2020)

• Adriaantje van den Boogaard (80), Naaldwijk
• Antonia van der Horst (85), Tilburg Nederland
• Adriaantje van den Boogert (80), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Anne Sanford Lemly (1), Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina
• Adrianus Res (41), Castricum
• Adriana Groeneveld (77), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonia van der Horst (85), Tilburg
• adriaantje van de BOOGERT (80), naaldwijk
• Alfred DOBSON (61)
• Albert Merrell McDonald (82), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States

• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna
• 1964 » Michael Hagan, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1964 » Txiki Begiristain, Spanish footballer
• 1965 » Peter Krause, American actor
• 1966 » Tobias Ellwood, American-English captain and politician
• 1967 » Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
• 1967 » Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1967 » Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• 1968 » Thorsten Boer, German footballer and manager

• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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.
• January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
• January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
• August 29 » The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
• October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
• December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.
• December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.

The temperature on August 12, 1966 was between 15.8 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.