1966 deaths

German conductor (1891–1966)

American soccer player (1897-1966)

Uzbekistani writer (1903–1966)

American suffragist (1879-1966)

American actress, screenwriter (1899-1966)

American actress (1904-1966)

Eastern Orthodox ascetic (1896-1966)

Argentine heavyweight boxer (1912–1966)

British pop singer (1932–1966)

American actor, director, and writer (1883-1966)

French racing cyclist (1916–1966)

Spanish footballer (1909-1966)

Greek politician (1876-1966)

German-American businesswoman (1880–1966)

United States Air Force test pilot and astronaut (1931–1966)

American film personality and fashion designer (1897-1966)

Japanese general (1884-1966)

German artist (1880-1966)

German general (1899-1966)

Demchugdongrub (8 February 1902 – 23 May 1966), also known as Prince De (), courtesy name Xixian (), was a Qing dynasty Chinese Mongol prince descended from the Borjigin imperial clan who lived during the 20th century and became the leader of an independence movement in Inner Mongolia. He was most notable for being the chairman of the pro-Japanese Mongol Military Government (1938–39) and later of the puppet state of Mengjiang (1939–45), during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the modern day, some see Demchugdongrub as a Mongol nationalist promoting Pan-Mongolism, while others view him as a tra

American test pilot (1921–1966)

Polish writer (1898-1966)

race car driver, completed four Formula One races 1964-1966, died from a crash at the 1966 German Grand Prix

Georgian poet, prose writer and literary scholar (1899–1966)

American author (1913–1966)

Italian fencer (1908–1966)

American actor (1887–1966)

defector Soviet diplomat (1905-1966)

Hungarian writer (1897-1966)

Dutch-American astronomer

German film producer (1889-1966)

American actress (1882–1966)

German mathematician and statistician (1891–1966)

Soviet composer and conductor (1887–1966)

Hungarian fencer

Austrian figure skater (1894–1966)

Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1874-1966)

American silent film actress (1900-1966)

Indian mathematician (*1907 - †1966)

racecar driver (1919–1966)

Finnish architect (1872-1966)

Indian social worker (1886–1966)

twentieth century Japanese philosopher (1893–1966)

Egyptian Islam scholar, judge and government minister (1888–1966)

Olympic American shooter and 11-time Olympic medalist.

American actor (1898–1966)

President of Paraguay (1897-1966)

experimental physicist, starting development of the synchrocyclotron particle accelerator

Prime Minister of Iceland (1893-1966)

Egyptian belly dancer, film actress, acrobat, and performer

German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander

Croatian footballer (1937-1966)

First Lady of Israel (1881–1966)

chess master from British India

Spanish general (1894–1966)

American boxer (1901–1966)

Australian tennis player (1899–1966)

Argentine racing driver

American sociologist (1886–1966)

swimmer (1906–1966)