Editing 1966 (section)

===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]])