Editing 1966 (section)

===January===
{{main|Deaths in January 1966}}
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[[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]])