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Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
Buster Keaton
American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)
André Breton
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
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Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Peter Debye
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
Cemal Gürsel
4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)
Evelyn Waugh
British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
Montgomery Clift
American actor (1920–1966)
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Navy fleet admiral (1885–1966)
Chang Myon
South Korean politician (1899-1966)
George de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)
Vincent Auriol
16th President of the French Republic (1884–1966)
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
Sayyid Qutb
Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
Jean Arp
Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Polish writer (1909–1966)
Giuseppe Farina
Italian racecar driver (1906-1966)
Georges Duhamel
French writer (1884–1966)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
Lao She
Chinese writer, novelist and playwright (1899-1966)
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
Abdul Salam Arif
Iraqi politician (1921-1966)
Wäinö Aaltonen
Finnish artist and sculptor (1894–1966)
Guillermo Stábile
Argentine football player and manager
Paul Reynaud
French politician and lawyer (1878-1966)
Venceslau Brás
President of Brazil (1868-1966)
Hedda Hopper
American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
Dietrich von Choltitz
German general (1894-1966)
Sepp Dietrich
German Military Officer and Waffen-SS general and a convicted Nazi Military war criminal (1892-1966)
D. T. Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Indian politician (1883-1966)
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Polish military leader (1895-1966)
Lenny Bruce
American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
Rolf Sievert
Swedish medical physicist, professor (1896–1966)
Carlo Carrà
Italian painter (1881-1966)
Felix Steiner
German SS commander ; affiant in Pohl Trial (NMT 4)
Clifton Webb
American actor, singer, dancer (1889–1966)
Hannes Kolehmainen
Finnish long-distance runner
Brian O'Nolan
Irish writer (1911-1966)
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Nigerian politician (1912-1966)
Väinö Tanner
Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)
Elena Stasova
Soviet politician (1873-1966)
Elio Vittorini
Italian writer and novelist (1908–1966)
Gino Severini
Italian painter (1883–1966)
Erwin Piscator
German theatre director (1893–1966)
Heimito von Doderer
Austrian writer (1896-1966)
Seán T. O'Kelly
second President of Ireland (1882-1966)
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Nigerian military leader (1924-1966)
Charlotte Cooper
English tennis player
Bud Powell
American jazz pianist and composer (1924–1966)
Sadao Araki
Japanese officer and general (1877–1966)
Nikolay Cherkasov
Soviet actor (1903-1966)
Christian Herter
American politician (1895-1966)
Alfred Neuland
Estonian weightlifter and coach (1895–1966)