Famous People Who Died In 1966
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1966. This list includes people like Walt Disney, Georges Lemaître, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Montgomery Clift, Buster Keaton and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, poets and military leaders who died in 1966. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Walt Disney05 December 1901, American
Margaret Sanger14 September 1879, American
Birth Control Activist
Lal Bahadur Shastri02 October 1904, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
Lenny Bruce13 October 1925, American
Standup Comedian
Buster Keaton04 October 1895, American
Montgomery Clift17 October 1920, American
Actor
Charles Whitman24 June 1941, American
William Frawley26 February 1887, American
Actor
Virginia Hill26 August 1916, Austrian, American
Criminal
Georges Lemaître17 July 1894, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Alberto Giacometti10 October 1901, Swiss
Sculptor,Painter
Herb Edelman05 November 1933, American
Actor
Eric Fleming04 July 1925, American
Actor
Herbert Marshall23 May 1890, British, American
Actor
C. S. Forester27 August 1899, British
Novelist
Alfred P. Sloan23 May 1875, American
CEO of General Motors Corporation
Peter Debye24 March 1884, American
American-Dutch chemist
J. F. C. Fuller01 September 1878, British
General
Vincent Auriol27 August 1884, French
Former President of France
Frits Zernike16 July 1888, Dutch
Physicist
Homi Bhabha30 October 1909, Indian
Indian physicist
Robert Rossen16 March 1908, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Andre Breton19 February 1896, French
Founder of Surrealism
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Playwright
Homi J. Bhabha30 October 1909, Indian
Physicist
Chester W. Nimitz24 February 1885, American
Officer
Dietrich von Choltitz09 November 1894, German
Military personnel
Evelyn Waugh28 October 1903, British
War correspondent, Novelist, Writer,
Sayyid Qutb09 October 1906, Egyptian
Author
Hendrik Verwoerd08 September 1901, South African
Politician, University teacher, Faculty
Sepp Dietrich28 May 1892, German
Military personnel
Elizabeth Arden1884 AD, Canadian
Business Leader, Entrepreneur
Elliot See23 July 1927, American
Officer, Test pilot, Astronaut
Albert Göring09 March 1895, Austrian, German
Mechanical engineer
Anna Akhmatova23 June 1889, Ukrainian, Russian
Writer, Translator, Literary critic, Poet
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Bud Powell27 September 1924, American
Pianist, Jazz musician
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa01 October 1912, Nigerian
Former Prime Minister of Nigeria
Bobby Fuller22 October 1942, American
Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi03 March 1924, Nigerian
Politician
Arthur Percival26 December 1887, Malaysian, British
Military personnel
D. T. Suzuki18 October 1870, Japanese
Writer, Philosopher, University teacher,
Giuseppe Farina30 October 1906, Italian
Racecar driver
Paul Reynaud15 October 1878, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Ahmadu Bello12 June 1910, Nigerian
Politician
Hans Hofmann21 March 1880, German
Painter, Artist
Chester Nimitz23 February 1885, American
Admiral
Joseph A. Walker20 February 1921, American
Astronaut, Physicist, Test pilot
Gino Severini07 April 1883, Italian
Painter
Alexander von Falkenhausen29 October 1878, German
Soldier, Politician, Military personnel
Cemal Gürsel13 October 1895, Turkish
Politician, Officer
Bai Chongxi18 March 1893, Taiwanese
Soldier
Lucy Burns28 July 1879
Suffragist, women's rights activist
Irving Klaw09 November 1910, American
Photographer
Edward Gordon Craig16 January 1872, Irish, British
Actor, Director, Illustrator, Scenographer,
Lao She03 February 1899, Chinese
Novelist, Dramatist
George de Hevesy01 August 1885, Hungarian, Swedish
Chemist, University teacher
Sadao Araki26 May 1877, Japanese
Military personnel
Felix von Luckner09 June 1881, German
Writer, Military personnel
Erwin Piscator17 December 1893, German
Theatre director
Fritz Wunderlich26 September 1930, German
Opera singer, Singer
Ernest Burgess16 May 1886, Canadian, American
Sociologist, Criminologist
Andrew McNaughton25 February 1887, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
Ludwig Binswanger13 April 1881, Swiss
Swiss psychiatrist
Josef Dietrich28 May 1892, German
Alvin Langdon Coburn11 June 1882, British, American
Photographer
Chang Myon28 August 1899, South Korean
Former Vice President of South Korea
Hannes Kolehmainen09 December 1889, Finnish
Runner
Kitty Harris25 May 1899, Canadian
trade unionist
Florence Ellinwood Allen23 March 1884, American
Lawyer, Judge
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer27 February 1881, Dutch
Mathematician
Hans Arp16 September 1886, French
Sergey Korolyov12 January 1907, Russian
Engineer
Jan Brzechwa15 August 1898, Polish
poet
Georges Duhamel30 June 1884, French
writer, poet, physician, novelist
Herbert Otto Gille08 March 1897, German
Wäinö Aaltonen08 March 1894, Finnish
Artist
Johnny Kidd23 December 1935, British
singer, songwriter
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec06 March 1909, Ukrainian
Louis Arthur Johnson10 January 1891, American
Politician, Lawyer
Chester William Nimitz24 February 1885, American
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh28 October 1903, British