About the day » Sunday August 14, 1966Calender converter

• Wim Salomons († 2009)
• Cathy Sue van Heiden, Landstuhl, Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany († 2003)
• Henriëtte Helena Snippe, Groningen († 1966)
• Norbert Dinnissen († 1987)
• Bryan Lee Brandes, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 1969)
• John Antonie COLINA, Purmerend
• Oscar Olmos, Mexico († 1969)
• Marianne Poot, 's-Gravenhage († 1983)

• Cornelia Huussen (59), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Bouke Allersma (68), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Kabel (90), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Vekemans (88), Hoboken 2660
• Beryl Tolson Macauley (71), Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
• Coenraad Bromet (73), Santiago,Chili
• Ann(e) Elizabeth JONES (99), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria van de Wiel (86), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Barend Stehouwer (22), Bloemendaal, nederland
• Clara Lorensen

• 1964 » Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1964 » Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
• 1965 » Brannon Braga, American producer, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 » Paul Broadhurst, English golfer
• 1965 » Terry Richardson, American photographer and director
• 1966 » Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
• 1966 » Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer and sportscaster
• 1966 » Tuncay Özkan, Turkish journalist and politician
• 1967 » Erik Gandini, Italian-Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 » Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer and coach

• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 1965 » Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
• 1966 » Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1972 » Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
• 1973 » Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)

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 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• 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 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• September 12 » Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).
• September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

The temperature on August 14, 1966 was between 9.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.