Editing 1966 (section)

==Deaths==
{{BDToC|deaths}}

===January===
{{main|Deaths in January 1966}}
[[File:VincentAuriol.png|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Vincent Auriol]]]]
[[File:Georges Theunis 1921.jpg|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Georges Theunis]]]]
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* [[January 1]] – [[Vincent Auriol]], French politician, [[President of France]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jessup |first1=John E. |title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996 |date=1998 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-28112-9 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 3]]
** [[Sammy Younge Jr.]], American civil rights activist (b. [[1944]])
** [[Marguerite Higgins]], American journalist (b. [[1920]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Georges Theunis]], 24th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Ignacy Oziewicz]], Polish general (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 11]]
** [[Alberto Giacometti]], Swiss sculptor and painter (b. [[1901]])
** [[Hannes Kolehmainen]], Finnish Olympic athlete (b. [[1889]])
** [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]], Indian activist, 2nd [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. [[1904]])
* [[January 14]] 
** [[Sergei Korolev]], Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. [[1907]])
** [[Bill Carr]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1909]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Samuel Akintola]], Nigerian premier of the [[Western Nigeria|Western region]] and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (assassinated) (b. [[1910]])
** [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]], Nigerian politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Nigeria]] (assassinated) (b. [[1912]])
** [[Ahmadu Bello]], Nigerian premier of the [[Premier of Northern Nigeria|Northern region]] (assassinated) (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Courtney Hodges]], American army general (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Vincent J. Donehue]], American stage director (b. [[1917]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Herbert Marshall]], English actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Saul Adler]], Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (b. [[1895]])
* [[January 31]]
** [[Elizabeth Patterson (actress)|Elizabeth Patterson]], American actress (b. [[1874]])
** [[Arthur Percival]], British general (b.[[1887]])

===February===
{{main|Deaths in February 1966}}
[[File:Hedda_Hopper_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Hedda Hopper]]]]
[[File:Busterkeaton edit.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Buster Keaton]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[Hedda Hopper]], American actress and gossip columnist (b. [[1885]])
** [[Buster Keaton]], American actor and film director (b. [[1895]])
** [[Joseph R. Knowland]], American politician and newspaper publisher (b. [[1873]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Narcisa de León]], Filipino film producer (b. [[1877]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Sophie Tucker]], Russian-born American singer (b. [[1886]])
* [[February 10]] 
** [[J. F. C. Fuller]], British general and military strategist (b. [[1878]])
** [[Billy Rose]], American composer and band leader (b. [[1899]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Wilhelm Röpke]], German economist (b. [[1899]])
* [[February 15]] 
** [[Gerard Antoni Ciołek|Gerard Ciołek]], Polish architect and historian (b. [[1909]])
** [[Camilo Torres Restrepo]], Colombian socialist and [[Roman Catholic]] priest (b. [[1929]])
* [[February 17]]
**[[Alfred P. Sloan]], American automobile industrialist (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-P-Sloan-Jr |title=Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. &#124; American industrialist &#124; Britannica |website=www.britannica.com |date=February 13, 2024}}</ref>
**[[Hans Hofmann]], German-American painter (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Robert Rossen]], American film director (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Rossen Is Dead at 57; Maker of Films for 30 Years; Writer-Director-Producer Won International Fame for Trenchant Realism |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.html?pageNumber=27 |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 19, 1966 |page=27 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Chester W. Nimitz]], American Navy admiral (b. [[1885]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Victor Kravchenko (defector)|Victor Kravchenko]], Soviet writer (b. [[1905]])<ref>Kern, G. (2007) ''The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War on Stalin'', Enigma Books,  {{ISBN|978-1-929631-73-5}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] 
** [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]], Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinayak-Damodar-Savarkar |title=Vinayak Damodar Savarkar &#124; Biography, History, & Books &#124; Britannica |website=www.britannica.com |date=October 9, 2023}}</ref>
** [[Gino Severini]], Italian painter (b. [[1883]])
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Charles Bassett]], American astronaut (b. [[1931]])
** [[Jonathan Hale]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
** [[Victor Jacob Koningsberger]], Dutch botanist (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Arisz |first=W.H. |chapter=Levensbericht V.J. Koningsberger |trans-chapter=Obituary of V.J. Koningsberger |publisher=[[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |pages=329&ndash;339 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601081100/https://dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00001345.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2023 |url=https://dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00001345.pdf |language=Dutch |location=Amsterdam |year=1967 |title=Jaarboek, 1965-1966 |trans-title=Yearbook, 1965&ndash;1966}}</ref>
** [[Elliot See]], American astronaut (b. [[1927]])

===March===
{{main|Deaths in March 1966}}
[[File:Zernike.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Frits Zernike]]]]
[[File:Nestor guillen olmos.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Néstor Guillén]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Fritz Houtermans]], German physicist (b. [[1903]])
** [[William R. Munroe]], American admiral (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 3]]
** [[William Frawley]], American actor (''I Love Lucy'') (b. [[1887]])
** [[Alice Pearce]], American actress (b. [[1917]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Anna Akhmatova]], Russian poet (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Michitaro Tozuka]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite web| last = Nishida| first = Hiroshi| url = http://admiral31.world.coocan.jp/e/px38.htm#v018| title = Imperial Japanese Navy, Totsuka Michitarō| accessdate = 28 April 2025}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – [[Donald B. Beary]], American admiral (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 8]]
** [[William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]], British politician (b. [[1907]])
** [[Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar]], Egyptian painter (b. [[1925]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Van Berkel |first=Klaas |author-link1=Klaas van Berkel |author2=Van Helden, A. |author3=Palm, L. |title=A History of Science in The Netherlands. Survey, Themes and Reference |chapter=Frits Zernike 1888–1966 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |year=1999 |pages=609–611 |isbn=90-04-10006-7 |url=http://www.historyofscience.nl/author.cfm?RecordId=1979}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Fannie Salter]], American lighthouse keeper (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Néstor Guillén]], Bolivian politician, 40th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1890]]){{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
* [[March 20]] – [[Laurence Abrams]], English professional footballer (b. 1889)
* [[March 27]] – [[Helen Menken]], American actress (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Helen Menken, Actress, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6038534/the_daily_capital_news/ |work=The Daily Capital News |agency=Associated Press |date=March 29, 1966 |location=The Daily Capital News |page=14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=July 28, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] – [[Stylianos Gonatas]], Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1876]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Erwin Piscator]], German theater director (b. [[1893]])

===April===
{{main|Deaths in April 1966}}
[[File:Evelynwaugh.jpeg|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Evelyn Waugh]]]]
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* [[April 1]] – [[Brian O'Nolan]], Irish humorist (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes |date=13 May 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-80619-3 |page=473 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlK7uHg2Dh8C&pg=PT473 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] – [[C. S. Forester]], English author (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Sternlicht |first=Sanford |title=C.S. Forester and the Hornblower saga |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, N.Y |year=1999 |isbn=9780815606215 |page=15}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Battista Farina]], Italian car designer (b. [[1893]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Julia Faye]], American actress (b. 1893)
* [[April 10]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]], English author (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 13]]
** [[Carlo Carrà]], Italian painter (b. [[1881]])
** [[Georges Duhamel (author)|Georges Duhamel]], French author (b. [[1884]])
** [[Abdul Salam Arif]], Iraqi military officer and statesman, 2nd [[President of Iraq]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Mario Serandrei]], Italian editor and screenwriter (b. [[1907]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Javier Solís]], Mexican singer and actor (b. [[1931]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/es/KL76-Q83/gabriel-%22-javier-solis%22-siria-levario-1931-1966 |title=Gabriel "Javier Solis" Siria Levario |accessdate=9 August 2022 |work=familysearch |language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – [[Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966)|Prince Frederick of Prussia]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Sepp Dietrich]], Nazi German military leader and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] commander (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 23]] – [[George Ohsawa]], Japanese dietist, founder of [[Macrobiotics]] (b. [[1893]])<ref>Michio Kushi & Alex Jack (2003) ''Diet for a Strong Heart: Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Dietary Guidelines'', St. Martin's Griffin.</ref>
* [[April 29]] – [[Eugene O'Brien (actor)|Eugene O'Brien]], American actor (b. [[1880]])

===May===
{{main|Deaths in May 1966}}
[[File:Hernandez Martinez.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez]]]]
[[File:Venceslau Brás.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Venceslau Brás]]]]
* [[May 4]] – [[Amédée Ozenfant]], French painter (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Erich Pommer]], German film producer (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Alfred Wintle]], British army officer and eccentric (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Ludwig Meidner]], German painter (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Venceslau Brás]], 9th [[President of Brazil]], leader in [[World War I]] (b. [[1868]]) 
** [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]], 30th [[President of El Salvador]] (assassinated) (b. [[1882]])
** [[Titien Sumarni]], Indonesian actress (b. [[1932]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Carlos Arruza]], Mexican bullfighter (b. [[1920]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Lady Dorothy Macmillan]], spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Tom Goddard]], English cricketer (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Demchugdongrub]], Mongolian politician (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Jim Barnes]], English golf champion (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Vernon Sturdee|Sir Vernon Sturdee]], Australian general (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 29]] – [[John and James Woolf|James Woolf]], British film producer (b. [[1919]])

===June===
{{main|Deaths in June 1966}}
[[File:Ed Wynn All Star Revue.JPG|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Ed Wynn]]]]
* [[June 1]] – [[Papa Jack Laine]], American jazz musician (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Nicholas Straussler]], Hungarian engineer (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Ethel Clayton]], American actress (b. [[1882]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Jean Arp]], Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Anton Melik]], Slovenian geographer (b. [[1890]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Wallace Ford]], English-born American actor (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[William Ernest Hocking]], American philosopher (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/g-h/hocking-william-ernest-1873-1966/ |title=Hocking, William Ernest (1873-1966) &#124; History of Missiology |website=www.bu.edu}}</ref>
** [[Hermann Scherchen]], Austrian conductor (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Robert G. Fowler]], American pioneer aviator (b. [[1884]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/06/16/archives/robert-g-fowler-aviator-81-dead-pilot-flew-biplane-from-west-to.html ROBERT G. FOWLER, AVIATOR, 81, DEAD; Pilot Flew Biplane From West to East Coast in 1911]</ref>
* [[June 19]] – [[Ed Wynn]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Georges Lemaître]], Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. [[1894]])
* [[June 30]]
** [[Margery Allingham]], British detective fiction writer (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Jessica |last=Mann |title=Deadlier Than the Male: An Investigation Into Feminine Crime Writing |publisher=David & Charles |year=1981 |isbn=9780715378779 |page=209}}</ref>
** [[Giuseppe Farina]], Italian racing driver (b. [[1906]])

===July===
{{main|Deaths in July 1966}}
[[File:Frank O'Hara (photo portrait).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Frank O'Hara]]]]
* [[July 2]]
** [[Jan Brzechwa]], Polish poet (b. [[1898]])
** [[John of Shanghai and San Francisco|John the Wonderworker]], Chinese [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] bishop, American archbishop and saint (b. [[1896]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Deems Taylor]], American composer (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 5]] – [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 9]] – Venerable [[Marija Petković]], Yugoslav [[Roman Catholic]] foundress and [[Servant of God]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Delmore Schwartz]], American poet (b. [[1913]])
* [[July 12]] – [[D. T. Suzuki]], Japanese scholar and essayist (b. [[1870]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Julie Manet]], French painter (b. [[1878]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Bobby Fuller]], American rock and roll musician (b. [[1942]])
* [[July 21]] 
** [[Francesco Paolo Cantelli]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1875]])
** [[Philipp Frank]], Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 23]] 
** [[Montgomery Clift]], American actor (b. [[1920]])
** [[Douglass Montgomery]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Frank O'Hara]], American poet (b. [[1926]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi]], Nigerian head of state (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 31]]
** [[Alexander von Falkenhausen]], German general and military advisor, 20 July Plotter (b. [[1878]])
** [[Bud Powell]], American jazz pianist (b. [[1924]])

===August===
{{main|Deaths in August 1966}}
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[[File:Lenny Bruce 1961.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Lenny Bruce]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Charles Whitman]], American mass murderer (b. [[1941]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Renya Mutaguchi]], Japanese general (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/M/u/Mutaguchi_Renya.htm |title=Mutaguchi Renya (1888-1966) |last=Budge |first=Kent G. |date= |website=The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia |publisher= |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – [[Lenny Bruce]], American comedian (b. [[1925]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Cordwainer Smith]], American author (b. [[1913]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Artur Alliksaar]], Estonian poet (b. [[1923]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Jan Kiepura]], Polish tenor and actor (b. [[1902]])
** [[Seena Owen]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Ken Miles]], British sports car racing engineer and driver (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Fritz Bleyl]], German painter (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Francis X. Bushman]], American actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[August 24]] 
** [[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]], Polish general and statesman, 33rd [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (b. [[1895]])
** [[Lao She]], Chinese author (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lao-She Lao She Chinese author]</ref>
** [[Vicente Mejía Colindres]], 29th [[President of Honduras]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 26]] 
** [[Art Baker (actor)|Art Baker]], American actor (b. [[1898]])
** [[W. W. E. Ross]], Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-wrightson-eustace-wwe-ross William Wrightson Eustace (W.W.E.) Ross]</ref>

===September===
{{main|Deaths in September 1966}}
[[File:Zuid Afrikaanse premier dr. H. Verwoerd, Bestanddeelnr 911-1297 (cropped).jpg|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Hendrik Verwoerd]]]]
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* [[September 6]]
** [[Margaret Sanger]], American birth control advocate (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Sanger &#124; Biography, Birth Control, & Significance &#124; Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Sanger |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=7 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] (b. [[1901]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Collett E. Woolman]], American airline executive (b. [[1889]])<ref>[https://www.deltamuseum.org/exhibits/delta-history/leaders/c-e-woolman Delta Leaders C.E. Woolman]</ref>
* [[September 14]]
** [[Gertrude Berg]], American actress (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Gertrude Berg &#124; American actress, producer, and screenwriter |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Berg |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Hiram Wesley Evans]], American Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/USAevansH.htm |title=Hiram Wesley Evans |website=Spartacus Educational}}</ref>
** [[Cemal Gürsel]], Turkish general and statesman, 10th [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] and 4th [[President of Turkey]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Fritz Wunderlich]], German tenor (b. [[1930]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov]], Soviet scientist and general (b. [[1874]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Paul Reynaud]], French lawyer and politician, 77th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]], Indian Independence activist (b. [[1900]])<ref name="Mpositive">{{cite web |title=Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi |url=https://www.mpositive.in/tag/dr-maghfoor-ahmed-ajazi-bihar/ |website=mpositive.in |date=August 30, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Helen Kane]], American singer (b. [[1904]])
* [[September 28]]
** [[André Breton]], French poet and writer (b. [[1896]])
** [[Eric Fleming]], American actor (b. [[1925]])

===October===
{{main|Deaths in October 1966}}
[[File:Elizabeth Arden NYWTS.jpg|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Elizabeth Arden]]]]
* [[October 9]] – [[Idris Ahmed Mia]], Bengali politician (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 10]] 
** [[Charlotte Cooper (tennis)|Charlotte Cooper]], English tennis champion (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Lance |last=Tingay |title=100 Years of Wimbledon. |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |year=1977 |isbn=9780900424717 |page=41}}</ref>
** [[Wilfrid Lawson (actor)|Wilfrid Lawson]], English actor (b. [[1900]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Clifton Webb]], American actor, dancer and singer (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Cléo de Mérode]], French dancer (b. [[1875]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Elizabeth Arden]], Canadian-born American beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. [[1881]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Claire McDowell]], American silent screen actress (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Hans Dreier]], German art director (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Alma Cogan]], English singer (b. [[1932]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Robert Charpentier]], French Olympic cyclist (b. [[1916]])

===November===
{{main|Deaths in November 1966}}
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[[File:O Ceallaigh.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Sean T. O'Kelly]]]]
* [[November 2]]
** [[Peter Debye]], Dutch chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1884]])
** [[Mississippi John Hurt]], African-American singer and guitarist (b. [[1893]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Dietrich von Choltitz]], Nazi German military governor of Paris in [[World War II]] (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Josef Charita |author2=François de Lannoy |title=Panzertruppen: Les Troupes Blindees Allemandes German Armored Troops 1935-1945 |publisher=Heimdal |year=2001 |isbn=9782840481515 |page=31}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] – [[Bernhard Zondek]], German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Esna Boyd]], Australian tennis player (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 14]] 
** [[Steingrímur Steinþórsson]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Iceland]] (b. [[1893]])
** [[Zengo Yoshida]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/68181/Yoshida-Zengo.htm Yoshida, Zengo]</ref>
* [[November 21]] – [[Władysław Bortnowski]], Polish historian and military commander (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Seán T. O'Kelly]], 2nd [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Siegfried Kracauer]], German writer, sociologist and critic (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Boris Podolsky]], Russian-American physicist (b. [[1896]])

===December===
{{main|Deaths in December 1966}}
[[File:Walt Disney 1946.JPG|upright=0.55|thumb|[[Walt Disney]]]]
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* [[December 2]] – [[L.E.J. Brouwer]], Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Juan Natalicio González]], Paraguayan poet, 37th [[President of Paraguay]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Verna Felton]], American actress (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Walt Disney]], American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ryan |first1=James Gilbert |last2=Schlup |first2=Leonard C. |title=Historical Dictionary of the 1940s |date=26 March 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-46865-3 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TnmsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – [[Betty Kuuskemaa]], Estonian actress (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.postimees.ee/2031447/varastati-betty-kuuskemaa-malestustahvel |title=Varastati Betty Kuuskemaa mälestustahvel |date=June 30, 2003 |website=Eesti}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Lucy Burns]], American women's rights campaigner (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Herbert Gille]], SS German general (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Guillermo Stábile]], Argentine football player and manager (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Christian Herter]], United States Secretary of State (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Nipo T. Strongheart]], Native American filmmaker (b. [[1891]])<ref>[https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/system/files/atoms/file/YNL%20Pace%20bio%20of%20Nipo%20Strongheart.pdf Nipo T. Strongheart]</ref>