About the day » Saturday August 6, 1966Calender converter

• Christ Georges Lamsens, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1969)
• Debora Ann "Debbie" MOUNTEER, Ventura County, California, United States Of America († 2019)
• Devera Marissa Couture, Maine
• Linda Margaretha BRONNER, Hoorn († 2015)
• Josef van der Vlist († 1966)
• Michael Nodler
• Neeltje Schonis († 2013)
• Frank Ernest Lisette Baert, Lokeren († 2017)
• Michelle Nilles, Luxemburg,Luxemburg,Wallonie,België
• Willemina van Veelen, Beverwijk, Gemeente Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)

• Anna Hendrikje Nuus (14), Lelystad, Flevoland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kappen (53), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Wiskerke (87), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriaan de Pagter (53)
• Adrianus Kappen (53), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Goosen (70), Enschede
• Arie Wiskerke (87), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Hendrikus Ketelaar (85)
• Adriana Willemina Witting (57), Delft
• Berengarius II van Ivrea, Bamberg (D)

• 1963 » Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
• 1964 » Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist
• 1965 » David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant
• 1965 » Stéphane Peterhansel, French racing driver
• 1965 » Vince Wells, English cricketer
• 1965 » Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1967 » Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer
• 1967 » Lorna Fitzsimons, English businesswoman and politician
• 1967 » Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 » Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer

• 1952 » Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

• 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 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
• July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
• 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 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on August 6, 1966 was between 10.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.