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• Eric Remmelzwaal, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Grietje Franke, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Roger Gerardus Marcus VERHAART, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 2021)
• Eduard Jozef Penders, Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Hendrikus Barthelomeus Hendriks, Doornenburg, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2003)
• Pieter Raap, Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland († 2001)
• ? ? († 1995)

• Arie Johannes de Visser (81), Leiden
• Antonie Engelenburg (68), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Dijkxhoorn (59), Hellevoetsluis, Voorne aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Andrew Fred Cox (56)
• Aaltje Dunning (91)
• Aaltje Jans Dunning (91), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia de Weert (79), Wouwse Plantage
• Adriaan van Ast (36), Groesbeek
• Agnes Sebilla Gassner (62), IJmuiden
• Anthony L Villone (62), Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten

• 1963 » Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1964 » Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
• 1964 » Jimmy Arias, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Nigel Redman, English rugby player
• 1966 » Eddie Olczyk, American ice hockey player, coach, and commentator
• 1967 » Mark Coyne, Australian rugby league player
• 1967 » Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish journalist, actress, and author
• 1968 » Arvind Kejriwal, Indian civil servant and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Delhi
• 1968 » Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
• 1968 » Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer

• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
• 1978 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)

• 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.
• March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• October 14 » The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
• October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
• November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on August 16, 1966 was between 7.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.