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| footer            = From top to bottom, left to right: The [[Cultural Revolution]] begins in China as [[Mao Zedong]] mobilizes the Red Guards to purge perceived enemies of the Communist ideology, plunging the nation into social and political turmoil; The [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] is held in [[England]], where the host nation defeats West Germany in the final to win its first and only championship title; the [[Beach Boys]] release [[Pet Sounds]], an innovative and influential album that redefines pop music and inspires generations of musicians; the [[Aberfan disaster]] devastates a Welsh village when a coal waste tip collapses onto a school, killing 144 people including 116 children; the [[University of Texas tower shooting]] in Austin shocks the nation as a gunman kills 16 people and wounds dozens more in one of the first modern mass shootings in U.S. history; the Soviet Union’s [[Luna 9]] becomes the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and transmit photographic data to Earth; the [[1966 flood of the Arno]] inundates [[Florence, Italy]], causing catastrophic damage to priceless artworks, manuscripts, and historical buildings in one of the worst cultural disasters of the 20th century; the groundbreaking science fiction series [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]] premieres on NBC, shaping global pop culture and inspiring generations of fans and scientists; the [[Buddhist Uprising]] in South Vietnam intensifies unrest as Buddhist groups protest the U.S.backed military government, exposing internal fractures while American troop deployments continue to rise in the deepening [[Vietnam War]].
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==Events==
===January===
{{main|January 1966}}
* [[January 1]] – In a [[coup]], Colonel [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] takes over as military ruler of the [[Central African Republic]], ousting President [[David Dacko]].<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Central Intelligence Agency |title=Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjESQTqIWWkC&pg=PA1 |year=1966 |pages=1}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état]]: President [[Maurice Yaméogo]] is deposed by a military coup in the [[Republic of Upper Volta]] (modern-day Burkina Faso).<ref name="DarlingtonDarlington1968">{{cite book |author1=Charles F. Darlington |author2=Alice B. Darlington |title=African Betrayal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGohAAAAMAAJ |year=1968 |publisher=D. McKay Company |page=178}}</ref>
* [[January 10]]
** [[Pakistan]]i–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the [[Tashkent Declaration]], a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2016/01/12/at-tashkent-soviet-peace-over-india-and-pakistan_558665 |title=At Tashkent, Soviet peace over India and Pakistan |last=Bratersky |first=Alexander |date=12 January 2016 |access-date=24 July 2020 |language=en-US |website=Russia Beyond website}}</ref>
** [[Georgia House of Representatives|The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia]] refuses to allow African-American representative [[Julian Bond]] to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance.<ref>{{cite book |first=Laughlin |last=McDonald |title=A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IseKjqX5Dj4C&pg=PA137 |date=27 March 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-01179-2 |pages=137}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[1966 Nigerian coup d'état]]: A bloody military coup is staged in [[Nigeria]], deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Siollun |first1=Max |title=Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966–1976) |year=2009 |publisher=Algora Publishing |isbn=9780875867106 |page=237}}</ref>
* [[January 17]]
** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, led by Major General [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi]], leaving a military government in power and beginning a long period of military rule.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200807290251.html |title=Nigeria: The Forgotten Interim President |work=[[AllAfrica]] |via=[[Daily Trust]] |first=Abubakar |last=Ibrahim |date=29 July 2008 |publisher=AllAfrica Global Media |editor1-first=Esther |editor1-last=Rose |editor2-first=Emmanuel |editor2-last=Aziken |editor3-first=Amadou Mahtar |editor3-last=Ba |editor3-link=Amadou Mahtar Ba |publication-place=[[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] |access-date=2010-02-28}}</ref>
** [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash]]: A U.S. Air Force [[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]] bomber collides with a [[KC-135 Stratotanker]] over Spain, dropping three 70-[[kiloton]] [[hydrogen bomb]]s near the town of [[Palomares, Almería|Palomares]], and one into the sea. [[Carl Brashear]], the first African-American [[United States Navy]] diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter, which results in the amputation of his leg.
* [[January 19]] – [[Indira Gandhi]] is elected [[Prime Minister of India]]; she is sworn in on [[January 24]].
* [[January 21]] – Italian Prime Minister [[Aldo Moro]] resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
* [[January 22]] – The military government of [[Nigeria]] announces that ex-prime minister [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] was killed during the coup a week previously.
* [[January 24]] – [[Air India Flight 101]] crashes into [[Mont Blanc]], killing all 117 people on board, including [[Homi J. Bhabha]], chairman of the [[Indian Atomic Energy Commission]].
* [[January 26]] – [[Disappearance of the Beaumont children]]: Three children disappear on their way to [[Glenelg, South Australia]], never to be seen again. Their fate remains unknown.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sutton |first=Candace |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/parents-of-beaumont-childrens-tortured-wait-goes-on/news-story/fb533bc2a34d59bacea04713d1b03732 |title=Tortured wait continues for parents of Beaumont children |work=News.com.au |date=2 February 2018 |access-date=14 February 2018}}</ref>,[[1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election]]: [[Harold Holt]] is elected leader of the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] unopposed when [[Robert Menzies|Sir Robert Menzies]] retires after an unprecedented [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|16 years in office]]; consequently Holt becomes [[Prime Minister of Australia]] six days later.
* [[January 27]]
**The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in [[Malaysia]] will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
**Britain's [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of [[Kingston upon Hull North (UK Parliament constituency)|Hull North]] in a [[1966 Kingston upon Hull North by-election|by-election]], with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the 1964 General Election to 5,351.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2018.1503958 |doi=10.1080/13619462.2018.1503958 |title=The campaign of the 'red-bearded radical': Richard Gott and the Hull North by-election, 1966 |date=2018 |last1=Roberts |first1=Sophie |journal=Contemporary British History |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=336–358 |s2cid=149714126|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with [[Rhodesia]].

===February===
{{main|February 1966}}
* [[February 1]] – Around 2,600 [[political prisoner]]s are released by [[East Germany]], in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from [[West Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title=U.S. News & World Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47tVAAAAYAAJ |year=1966 |publisher=U.S. News Publishing Corporation |page=19}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – The unmanned Soviet [[Luna 9]] spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the [[Moon]].
* [[February 4]] – [[All Nippon Airways Flight 60]] plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 people are killed.
* [[February 7]]
** The [[1966 Iloilo City fire|Great Fire of Iloilo]], Philippines, breaks out in a lumber yard and burns for almost half a day, destroying nearly three-quarters of the [[Iloilo City Proper|City Proper]] area and causing 50 million pesos in total property damage.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Heritage Community Resilience: The Experience of Stakeholders in Calle Real, Iloilo City, Philippines |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/1091/1/012011 |date=2022 |last1=Ibabao |first1=Rhodella A. |last2=Balinas |first2=Vicente |last3=Camena |first3=Jerilee |last4=Trance |first4=Rene |last5=Defiesta |first5=Gay |last6=Grio |first6=Mary Earl |last7=Oreta |first7=Andres Winston |last8=Penaredondo |first8=Suzette |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |volume=1091 |issue=1 |page=012011 |bibcode=2022E&ES.1091a2011I |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 18, 1966 |title=Official Week in Review: February 16 ─ March 29, 1966 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1966/04/18/official-week-in-review-february-16-march-29-1966/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2023-02-01 |title=Sta. Teresita del Niño Church in Iloilo City |url=https://www.theoldchurches.com/philippines/iloilo/iloilo-city/sta-teresita-del-nino-church-iloilo-city/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=THEOLDCHURCHES |language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of the United States and [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a [[Declaration of Honolulu, 1966|summit]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to discuss the course of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>David C. Humphrey & David S. Patterson (eds), [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 "January 31–March 8: The Honolulu Conference; Congressional Hearings on the War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216202803/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 |date=February 16, 2015 }}", ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966'', 1998.</ref> 
* [[February 14]] – The [[Australian dollar]] is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
* [[February 19]] – The naval minister of the United Kingdom, [[Christopher Mayhew]], resigns over defence policy.
* [[February 20]] – While Soviet author and translator [[Valery Tarsis]] is abroad, the [[Soviet Union]] negates his citizenship.
* [[February 23]] – [[1966 Syrian coup d'état]]: An intra-party military coup in [[Syria]] replaces the previous government of [[Amin al-Hafiz]] by one led by [[Salah Jadid]].
* [[February 24]] – A coup led by the police and military of [[Ghana]] raises the [[National Liberation Council]] to power while president [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is abroad.
* [[February 28]] – British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] calls a general election in the United Kingdom, to be held on March 31.

===March===
{{main|March 1966}}
* March – The [[DKW]] automobile ceases production in Germany.<ref name="motorbase.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/555 |title=DKW F102 |access-date=October 14, 2012 |work=motorbase.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609173001/http://motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/555/ |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 1]]
**The British Government announces plans for the [[decimalisation]] of the [[pound sterling]] (hitherto denominated in 20 shillings and 240 pence to the £), to come into force on 15 February 1971 ([[Decimal Day]]).
**Soviet [[space probe]] ''[[Venera 3]]'' crashes on [[Venus]], becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
**The [[Ba'ath Party]] takes power in [[Syria]].
* [[March 2]] – [[Kwame Nkrumah]] arrives in [[Guinea]] and is granted [[right of asylum|asylum]].
* [[March 4]]
**[[Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402]] crashes during a night landing in poor visibility at [[Haneda Airport|Tokyo International Airport]] in Japan, killing 64 of 72 people on board.
**In an interview with ''[[London Evening Standard]]'' reporter [[Maureen Cleave]], [[John Lennon]] of [[The Beatles]] states: "We're [[more popular than Jesus]] now."
* [[March 5]]
**[[BOAC Flight 911]] crashes in severe [[clear-air turbulence]] over [[Mount Fuji]] soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
**''[[Merci, Chérie]]'' by [[Udo Jürgens]] (music by Udo Jürgens, lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1966]] (staged in Luxembourg) for Austria.
* [[March 7]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]] asks U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] for negotiations about the state of [[NATO]] equipment in France.
* [[March 8]]
**Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the [[Indonesia]]n Foreign Ministry.
**[[Vietnam War]]: The U.S. announces it will substantially increase the number of its troops in [[Vietnam]].
**[[Nelson's Pillar]] in [[O'Connell Street]], [[Dublin]], is clandestinely blown up by former [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the [[Easter Rising]].
* [[March 10]] – [[Crown Prince]]ss [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]] marries [[Claus von Amsberg]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Frederick Martin |author2=Sir John Scott Keltie |author3=Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick |author4=Mortimer Epstein |author5=Sigfrid Henry Steinberg |author6=John Paxton |author7=Brian Hunter (Librarian) |author8=Barry Turner |display-authors=3 |title=The Statesman's Year-book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyk1AAAAIAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=Palgrave |page=1167}}</ref> Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
* [[March 11]]
**[[Transition to the New Order]] in [[Indonesia]]: President [[Sukarno]] gives all [[executive power]]s to General [[Suharto]] by signing the [[Supersemar]] order.
**French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] states that French troops will be taken out of [[NATO]] and that all French NATO bases and headquarters must be closed within a year.
* [[March 16]] – [[NASA]] spacecraft [[Gemini 8]] ([[David Scott]], [[Neil Armstrong]]) conducts the first docking in space, with an [[Agena target vehicle]].
* [[March 20]] – Football's [[FIFA World Cup Trophy]] is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "[[Pickles (dog)|Pickles]]" and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
* [[March 22]] – in the Chinese city of [[Xingtai]] a magnitude [[1966 Xingtai earthquakes|6.8 earthquake]] leaves more than 8,000 dead and 38,000 injured.
* [[March 24]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] meets [[Michael Ramsey]], the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.<ref>{{cite web |first=John L. |last=Allen Jr. |date=10 October 2003 |url=http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word101003.htm |title=No Nobel of John Paul; Catholics, Anglicans determined to keep talking; An interview with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Personnel changes in the curia |publisher=[[National Catholic Reporter]] |access-date=February 22, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – Demonstrations are held across the United States against the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Mary Ann Robinson |author2=United States Air Force Academy. Library |title=The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EZ5o7qZ1bIC&pg=PA58 |year=1982 |publisher=United States Air Force Academy, Library |pages=58}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – [[Cevdet Sunay]] becomes the fifth president of [[Turkey]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Stanford J. Shaw |author2=Ezel Kural Shaw |title=History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIET_7ji7YAC&pg=PA440 |date=27 May 1977 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-29166-8 |pages=440}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] – The [[23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] is held: [[Leonid Brezhnev]] demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that [[Sino-Soviet split|Chinese-Soviet relations]] are not satisfactory.<ref>{{cite book |first=Christian F. |last=Ostermann |title=Inside China's Cold War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IjzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA370 |year=2008 |publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |pages=370}}</ref>
* [[March 31]]
**The British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] led by [[Harold Wilson]] wins the [[1966 United Kingdom general election]], gaining a 96-seat majority (compared with a single seat majority when the election was called on February 28).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm |work=BBC News |title=1966: Harold Wilson wins sweeping victory |date=March 31, 1966 |access-date=October 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm |archive-date=March 7, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Luna 10]], which becomes the first [[space probe]] to enter orbit around the Moon.

===April===
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* [[April 2]] – The [[Indonesia]]n army demands that the country rejoin the [[United Nations]].
* [[April 3]] – [[Luna 10]] is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.
* [[April 5]] &ndash; During the [[Buddhist Uprising]], South Vietnamese military prime minister [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of [[Da Nang|Đà Nẵng]] before backing down.<ref>{{cite book |title=Intervention : how America became involved in Vietnam |last=Kahin|first=George McT. |location=New York City |publisher=Knopf |year=1986 |pages=423&ndash;424 |isbn=0-394-54367-X |author-link=George McTurnan Kahin |url=https://archive.org/details/intervention00geor}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – The United Kingdom asks the [[United Nations Security Council]] for authority to use force to stop [[oil tanker]]s that violate the embargo against [[Rhodesia]] (authority is given [[April 10]]).
* [[April 8]]
** Buddhists in [[South Vietnam]] protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for [[Free and fair election|free elections]].
** [[Leonid Brezhnev]] becomes General Secretary of the [[Soviet Union]], as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
* [[April 14]] 
** Kenyan Vice President [[Oginga Odinga]] resigns, saying "invisible government" representing foreign interests now runs the country. He will head a new party, the [[Kenya People's Union]]. 
**The [[South Vietnam]]ese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
* [[April 15]] – An anti-[[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] conspiracy is exposed in [[Egypt]].
* [[April 18]]
** China declares that it will stop economic aid to [[Indonesia]].
** The [[38th Academy Awards]] ceremony is held in [[Santa Monica, California]]: ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[April 19]] – [[Moors murders]]: [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] go on trial at [[Chester Crown Court]] in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November [[1963]] and October [[1965]].
* [[April 21]]
** An [[artificial heart]] is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a [[Houston, Texas]], hospital.
** The opening of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] is televised for the first time.
** [[Haile Selassie]] visits [[Jamaica]] for the first time, meeting with [[Rastafari movement|Rasta]] leaders.
* [[April 24]] – [[Uniform Time Act|Uniform]] [[daylight saving time]] is first observed in most parts of North America.
* [[April 26]] 
** A new government is formed in the [[Republic of the Congo]], led by [[Ambroise Noumazalaye]].
** The magnitude 5.1 [[1966 Tashkent earthquake|Tashkent earthquake]] affects the largest city in [[Soviet Central Asia]] with a maximum [[Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale|MSK intensity]] of VII (''Very strong''). [[Tashkent]] is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
* [[April 27]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] and Soviet Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] meet in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] (the first meeting between leaders of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Soviet Union]]).
* [[April 28]] – In [[Rhodesia]], security forces kill seven [[ZANLA]] men in combat; ''[[Chimurenga]]'', the [[ZANU]] rebellion, begins.
* [[April 30]] – Regular [[hovercraft]] service begins over the [[English Channel]] (discontinued in 2000).

===May===
{{main|May 1966}}
[[File:Flag of Guyana.svg|thumb|May 26: [[Guyana]] becomes independent]]
* [[May 4]]
** [[Fiat]] signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the [[Soviet Union]].
** [[May 1966 lunar eclipse]]: A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place, the 64th lunar eclipse of [[Lunar Saros 111]].
* [[May 5]] – The [[Montreal Canadiens]] defeat the [[Detroit Red Wings]] to win the [[Stanley Cup]] in ice hockey.
* [[May 6]] – The [[Moors murders]] trial ends in the UK with [[Ian Brady]] being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. [[Myra Hindley]] is convicted on two counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, receiving two concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory.
* [[May 7]] – Irish bank workers [[Irish bank strikes (1966–76)|go on strike]]. 
* [[May 12]]
** African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
** [[China Radio International|Radio Peking]] claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over [[Yunnan]] (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
* [[May 14]] – [[Turkey]] and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in [[Cyprus]].
* [[May 15]]
** [[Indonesia]] asks [[Malaysia]] for peace negotiations.
** The [[South Vietnam]]ese army besieges [[Da Nang]].
** Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the [[White House]], then rally at the [[Washington Monument]].
* [[May 16]]
** The [[Chinese Communist Party]] issues the '[[May 16 Notification|May 16 Notice']], marking the beginning of the [[Cultural Revolution]].
** A strike is called by the [[National Union of Seamen]] in the United Kingdom.<ref name=Seamenstrike>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/23/newsid_2504000/2504227.stm |title=Emergency laws over seamen's strike |work=On This Day 1950–2005 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=2020-12-18 |date=1966-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209013952/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/23/newsid_2504000/2504227.stm |archive-date=2008-02-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>
** In New York City, Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] makes his first public speech on the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[May 19]] – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-old [[Murder of Sylvia Likens|Sylvia Likens]] in Indianapolis, United States, and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December [[1985]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2013/10/24/sylvia-likens/3178393/ |title=The 1965 torture and murder of Sylvia Likens |website=The Indianapolis Star}}</ref>
* [[May 24]]
** [[Battle of Mengo Hill]]: [[Uganda]]n army troops arrest [[Mutesa II of Buganda]] and occupy his palace.<ref>{{cite book |author=Uganda. National Assembly |title=Official Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czNVAAAAYAAJ |year=1967 |page=375}}</ref>
** The [[Nigeria]]n government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.
* [[May 25]]
** [[Explorer program]]: Satellite [[Explorer 32]] (Atmosphere Explorer-B) is launched from the United States.
** [[No. 9 Squadron RAAF]] becomes part of the 4,500 strong [[Australia]]n Task Force assigned to duties in [[Vietnam]], leaving for [[Southeast Asia]] aboard the aircraft carrier [[HMAS Sydney (R17)|HMAS ''Sydney'']].<ref>Scutts, Colin (1976), ''Helicopter Gunships'', p. 5. Marshall Cavendish. {{ISSN|0307-2886}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] – [[British Guiana]] achieves independence from the United Kingdom, becoming [[Guyana]].
* [[May 28]]
** [[Fidel Castro]] declares [[martial law]] in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
** The [[Indonesia]]n and [[Malaysia]]n governments declare that the [[Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation]] is over (a treaty is signed on [[August 11]]).
** Boat ride ''[[It's a Small World]]'' opens at [[Disneyland]].
* [[May 29]] – Sports stadium [[Estadio Azteca]] officially opens in [[Mexico City]] in advance of the [[1968 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-16 |title=Classic Stadium |url=http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stadiums/stadium=5000118/ |access-date=2022-01-30 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716155413/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stadiums/stadium=5000118/ |archive-date=16 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] – The [[Philippines]] reestablishes [[diplomatic relations]] with [[Malaysia]].

===June===
{{main|June 1966}}
* [[June 2]]
** [[Éamon de Valera]] is re-elected as Irish president, aged 84.
** [[Surveyor program]]: [[Surveyor 1]] lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the [[Moon]], becoming the first U.S. [[spacecraft]] to soft-land on another world.
** Four former cabinet ministers including [[Évariste Kimba]] are executed in the [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Democratic Republic of the Congo]] for alleged involvement in a plot to kill [[Mobutu Sese Seko]].
* [[June 3]] – [[Joaquín Balaguer]] is elected president of the [[Dominican Republic]].
* [[June 5]] – [[Gemini 9A]]: [[Gene Cernan]] completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).
* [[June 6]] – [[Civil rights movement|Civil rights]] activist [[James Meredith]] is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the [[March Against Fear]].
* [[June 8]]
** A [[North American XB-70 Valkyrie]] strategic bomber prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with an [[F-104 Starfighter]] chase plane during a photo shoot. [[NASA]] pilot [[Joseph A. Walker]] and [[USAF]] test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
** [[1966 Topeka tornado]]: [[Topeka, Kansas]], is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the [[Fujita scale]], the first to exceed US$100&nbsp;million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, and the campus of [[Washburn University]] suffers catastrophic damage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php |title=NOAA.gov |access-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103201321/http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – Chicago's [[Division Street riots]] begin in response to police shooting of a young Puerto Rican man. 
* [[June 13]] – ''[[Miranda v. Arizona]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that the police must inform [[suspect]]s of their rights before questioning them.
* [[June 14]] – The [[Holy See|Vatican]] abolishes the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]''. 
* [[June 17]] – An [[Air France]] personnel strike begins.
* [[June 18]] – [[CIA]] chief [[William Raborn]] resigns; [[Richard Helms]] becomes his successor.
* [[June 28]] – [[Argentine Revolution]]: In [[Argentina]], a [[military dictatorship|military junta]] calling itself ''Revolución Argentina'' deposes president [[Arturo Umberto Illia]] in a [[coup]] and appoints General [[Juan Carlos Onganía]] to power.
* [[June 29]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. planes begin bombing [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]].<ref>{{cite book |first=William |last=Stewart Logan |title=Hanoi: Biography of a City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiYG5lXd4XsC&pg=PA149 |year=2000 |publisher=UNSW Press |isbn=978-0-86840-443-1 |pages=149}}</ref>
** The strike by the [[National Union of Seamen]] in the United Kingdom is called off.<ref name=Seamenstrike/>
* [[June 30]]
** France formally leaves the military structure of [[NATO]].
** The [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) is founded in Washington, D.C.

===July===
{{main|July 1966}}
* [[July 1]] – [[Joaquín Balaguer]] becomes president of the [[Dominican Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kenneth Ruddle |author2=Philip Gillette |author3=Philip S. Gillette |title=Latin American Political Statistics: Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNYOAAAAYAAJ |year=1972 |publisher=Latin American Center, University of California |isbn=978-0-87903-221-0 |page=36}}</ref>
* [[July 3]]
**31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-[[Vietnam War]] protesters in front of the [[United States Embassy in London]] in [[Grosvenor Square]] turns violent.
**[[René Barrientos]] is elected [[President of Bolivia]].
* [[July 6]] – [[Malawi]] becomes a republic.
* [[July 7]] – A [[Warsaw Pact]] conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
* [[July 8]] – King [[Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi]] is deposed by his son [[Ntare V]], who is in turn deposed by prime minister [[Michel Micombero]].
* [[July 11]] – The [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] begins in England.
* [[July 12]] – [[Zambia]] threatens to leave the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] because of British peace overtures to [[Rhodesia]].
* [[July 13]] – In [[Chicago]], United States, [[Richard Speck]] breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.<ref>Fornek, Scott. [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1662933/posts"'They're all dead!': 40 years ago this week, Richard Speck killed 8"]. ''Chicago Sun-Times''. July 9, 2006.</ref><ref>''The Murder Almanac'' {{ISBN|978-1-897-78404-4}} p. 149</ref>
* [[July 14]]
** [[Israel]]i and [[Syria]]n jet fighters clash over the [[Jordan River]].
** [[Gwynfor Evans]], President of [[Plaid Cymru]], the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for [[Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency)|Carmarthen]], taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
* [[July 18]]
** [[Gemini 10]] ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]) is launched from the United States. After docking with an [[Agena target vehicle]], the astronauts set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763&nbsp;km).
** The [[International Court of Justice]] rules in favour of South Africa in a case on the administration of [[South West Africa]] which has been brought before them by [[Ethiopia]] and [[Liberia]].
* [[July 22]] – Following the [[death of Hsu Tsu-tsai]], a visiting engineer, in The Hague under suspicious circumstances, the Chinese government declares Dutch diplomat G. J. Jongejans [[persona non grata]], but tells him not to leave China before Hsu's Chinese associates have been permitted to leave the Netherlands.
* [[July 23]] – [[Katanga Province|Katangese]] troops in [[Kisangani|Stanleyville]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]], revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister [[Moise Tshombe]].
* [[July 24]]
** U.N. Secretary General [[U Thant]] visits Moscow.
** A USAF [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4C Phantom]] #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese [[S-75 Dvina|SAM-2]] {{convert|45|mi}} northeast of [[Hanoi]], the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese [[surface-to-air missile]] in the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite book |last=Van Staaveren |first=Jacob |title=Gradual Failure: The air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Lk6CdTcReLgC |publisher=DIANE Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=9781428990180 |pages=163–4}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] – Lord Gardiner issues the [[Practice Statement]] in the [[House of Lords]] of the United Kingdom, stating that the House, when acting in a judicial capacity, is not bound to follow its own previous [[precedent]].
* [[July 28]] – The U.S. announces that a [[Lockheed U-2]] reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
* [[July 29]]
** [[1966 Nigerian counter-coup]]: Army officers from the north of [[Nigeria]] execute head of state General [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi|Aguiyi-Ironsi]] and install [[Yakubu Gowon]].
** ''[[La Noche de los Bastones Largos]]'': Junta takes over Argentine universities.
** [[Bob Dylan]] is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in [[Woodstock, New York]]. He is not seen in public for over a year.
* [[July 30]] – [[England national football team|England]] beats [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] 4–2 to win the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] after [[extra time]].
* [[July 31]] – [[Loss of MV Darlwyne|Loss of MV ''Darlwyne'']]: a pleasure cruiser disappears off the [[Cornwall]] coast of England with the loss of all 31 aboard.<ref>'{{cite book |last=Banks |first=Martin |title=The Mysterious Loss of the Darlwyne |publisher=Tamar Books |location=Exeter |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9574742-1-5 |pages=29&ndash;31, 47}}</ref>

===August===
{{main|August 1966}}
* [[August 1]]
** Sniper [[Charles Whitman]] [[University of Texas tower shooting|kills 15 people and wounds 31]] from roof of the [[University of Texas at Austin]] Main Building tower in the United States, after earlier killing his [[Uxoricide|wife]] and [[Matricide|mother]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hight |first=Bruce |title=UT Tower shooting claims one more life |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/03/ut-tower-shooting-claims-one-more-life/10008498007/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Austin American-Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>
** The British [[Colonial Office]] merges with the [[Commonwealth Relations Office]] to form a new [[Commonwealth Office]].
* [[August 5]] – The [[Caesars Palace]] hotel and casino opens in [[Las Vegas]], United States.
* [[August 6]]
** [[Braniff International Airways Flight 250]] crashes in [[Falls City, Nebraska]], United States, killing all 42 of those on board.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident BAC One-Eleven 203AE N1553 Falls City, NE |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660806-0 |access-date=2020-07-26 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
** [[René Barrientos]] takes office as the President of [[Bolivia]].
** The [[António de Oliveira Salazar|Salazar]] Bridge (later the [[25 de Abril Bridge]]) opens in [[Lisbon]], Portugal.
* [[August 10]] – [[Lunar Orbiter 1]], the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon, is launched.
* [[August 11]]
** Indonesia and Malaysia issue a joint peace declaration, formally ending the [[Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation]] which began in 1963.
** [[The Beatles]] hold a press conference in Chicago, during which [[John Lennon]] apologizes for his "[[more popular than Jesus]]" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
* [[August 12]] – [[Massacre of Braybrook Street]]: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[August 15]] – [[Syria]]n and [[Israel]]i troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as the [[Sea of Galilee]]) for 3 hours.
* [[August 17]] – [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Republic]] begin negotiations in [[Kuwait]] to end the war in [[Yemen]].
* [[August 18]] – [[Vietnam War]] – [[Battle of Long Tan]]: D Company, 6th Battalion of the [[Royal Australian Regiment]], meets and defeats a [[Viet Cong]] force estimated to be four times larger, in Phuoc Tuy Province, [[Republic of Vietnam]].
* [[August 19]] – The 6.8 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1966 Varto earthquake|Varto earthquake]] affects the town of Varto in eastern [[Turkey]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing at least 2,394–3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.
* [[August 21]] – Seven men are sentenced to death in [[Egypt]] for anti-[[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] agitation.
* [[August 22]]
** The [[Asian Development Bank]] (ADB) is established.
** The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the [[United Farm Workers|United Farm Workers of America]] (UFW), is formed.
* [[August 26]] – The first battle of the South African Air Force and the [[South African Police]] with [[People's Liberation Army of Namibia|PLAN]], the armed wing of the [[South West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO), takes place at [[Ongulumbashe]] during Operation Blue Wildebeest, triggering the [[South African Border War]] which continues until [[1989]].
* [[August 29]] – [[The Beatles]] end their [[The Beatles' 1966 US tour|U.S. tour]] with a concert at [[Candlestick Park]] in [[San Francisco]]. It is their last performance as a live touring band.
* [[August 30]] – France offers independence to [[French Somaliland]] ([[Djibouti]] from 1977).

===September===
{{main|September 1966}}
[[File:Flag of Botswana.svg|thumb|September 30: [[Botswana]] becomes independent]]
* [[September 1]]
** [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[U Thant]] declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
** 98 British tourists die when [[Britannia Airways Flight 105]] crashes in [[Ljubljana]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[September 6]] – South African Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] is stabbed to death in Parliament by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]].
* [[September 9]] – [[NATO]] decides to move [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe]] to Belgium.
* [[September 12]] – [[B. J. Vorster]] becomes the new [[Prime Minister of South Africa]].
* [[September 13]] – [[Cultural Revolution]] in China: Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported by [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union|TASS]] in the Soviet Union.
* [[September 16]]
** In South Vietnam, [[Thích Trí Quang]] ends a 100-day hunger strike.
** The [[Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)|Metropolitan Opera House]] opens at [[Lincoln Center]] in New York City with the world premiere of [[Samuel Barber]]'s opera ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (1966 opera)|Antony and Cleopatra]]''.
* [[September 19]] – Indonesian military commander (later President) [[Suharto]] announces the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations.
* [[September 29]] – [[Hurricane Inez]] strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Longshore |first=David |title=Encyclopedia of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York |year=2008 |isbn=9781438118796 |page=239}}</ref>
* [[September 30]]
** The [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as [[Botswana]], with [[Seretse Khama]] as its first [[President of Botswana|President]].
** [[Baldur von Schirach]] and [[Albert Speer]] are released from [[Spandau Prison]] in West Berlin.

===October===
{{main|October 1966}}
[[File:Flag of Lesotho (1966–1987).svg|thumb|October 4: [[Lesotho]] becomes independent]]
* [[October 1]] – [[West Coast Airlines Flight 956]] crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors {{convert|5.5|mi|km}} south of [[Wemme, Oregon]], the first loss of a [[DC-9]].<ref>[http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR67-AF.pdf Aircraft Accident Report. West Coast Airlines, Inc DC-9 N9101. Near Wemme, Oregon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216033755/http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR67-AF.pdf |date=February 16, 2008 }}, Adopted:December 11, 1967.</ref>
* [[October 3]] – [[Tunisia]] severs diplomatic relations with the [[United Arab Republic]].
* [[October 4]]
** [[Israel]] applies for membership in the [[European Economic Community]], which is never granted.
** [[Basutoland]] becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the name [[Lesotho]].
* [[October 5]]
** [[UNESCO]] signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
** Spain closes its [[Gibraltar]] border to vehicular traffic.<ref>{{cite book |first=Judith |last=Bell |title=Border and Territorial Disputes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3om5AAAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-8103-2543-2 |pages=94–95}}</ref>
** An experimental [[breeder reactor]] at the [[Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station]] in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
* [[October 6]] 
** [[LSD]] is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.
** The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the [[Panhandle (San Francisco)|Panhandle]] of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's [[Haight-Ashbury]] district).
* [[October 7]] – The [[Soviet Union]] declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
* [[October 9]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Binh Tai Massacre]].
* [[October 11]] – France and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
* [[October 14]] 
** Closure of [[Intra Bank]] begins a crisis in the Lebanese banking system.
** The city of [[Montreal]] inaugurates the [[Montreal Metro]] system.
* [[October 15]] – [[Bobby Seale]] and [[Huey P. Newton]] found the [[Black Panther Party]] in the United States.
* [[October 17]] – [[Lesotho]] and [[Botswana]] are admitted to the [[United Nations]].
* [[October 21]] – [[Aberfan disaster]] in [[South Wales]] (U.K.): 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Tony |title=Aberfan: The Story of a Disaster (passim) |date=1967 |publisher=Hutchinson & Co |location=London |oclc=751632264}}</ref>
* [[October 26]]
** [[NATO]] decides to move its headquarters from Paris to [[Brussels]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Walter John |last=Raymond |title=Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dtn0olA8PcC&pg=PA649 |year=1992 |publisher=Brunswick Publishing Corp |isbn=978-1-55618-008-8 |pages=649}}</ref>
** A fire aboard the US aircraft carrier {{USS|Oriskany|CV-34|6}} in the [[Gulf of Tonkin]] kills 44 crewmen.
* [[October 27]] 
** The [[United Nations]] terminates the mandate given by the [[League of Nations]] and proclaims that [[South West Africa]] will be administrated by the United Nations. This is rejected by South Africa.
** [[Walt Disney]] records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for [[EPCOT (concept)|EPCOT]], a utopian [[planned community|planned city]] to be built in Florida.

===November===
{{main|November 1966}}
[[File:Flag of Barbados.svg|thumb|November 30: [[Barbados]] becomes independent]]
* [[November 2]] 
**The [[Cuban Adjustment Act]] comes into force, allowing 123,000 [[Cubans]] the opportunity to apply for [[permanent residency]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/cuban-adjustment-act |title=1966: The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=February 12, 2024}}</ref>
**[[North Korea]]n commandos ambush a UN command control consisting of [[2nd Infantry Division (United States)|2nd Infantry Division]] soldiers south of the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3qXEAAAQBAJ&dq=november+2+1966+korean+ambush&pg=PR15 |title=Smell the Gunpowder: The Land of the Morning Calm |isbn=978-0-578-26472-1 |last1=Graser |first1=William R. |date=October 25, 2022 |publisher=Outskirts Press}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] – [[1966 flood of the Arno]] river in Italy hits [[Florence]], flooding it to a maximum depth of {{convert|6.7|m|ft|abbr=on}}, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, a [[1966 Venice flood|severe tidal flood]] hits [[Venice]].
* [[November 5]] – Thirty-eight African states demand that the [[United Kingdom]] use force against the [[Rhodesia]]n government.
* [[November 6]] – [[Lunar Orbiter 2]] is launched.
* [[November 8]] – Screen actor [[Ronald Reagan]] is elected [[Governor of California]].
* [[November 10]] – [[Seán Lemass]] retires as [[Taoiseach]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]], to be replaced in the role by fellow [[Fianna Fáil]] member [[Jack Lynch]].
* [[November 11]]
** A mine kills three [[Israelis|Israeli]] paratroopers on the [[West Bank]] border.
** Spain declares a general amnesty for crimes committed during the [[Spanish Civil War]], effective only for the [[Falangists]]' side.
* [[November 12]] – A total [[solar eclipse]] occurs, the 20th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 142]].
* [[November 15]] – [[Gemini 12]] ([[James A. Lovell]], [[Buzz Aldrin]]) splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, {{convert|600|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of [[the Bahamas]].
* [[November 17]]
** The U.N. General Assembly decides to found the [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization]].
** A spectacular [[Leonids|Leonid]] meteor shower passes over [[Arizona]], at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
* [[November 24]] – [[TABSO Flight 101]], from Sofia, Bulgaria, crashes near [[Bratislava]], Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ďuriančík |first=Pavol |date=24 November 2006 |title=Haváriu lietadla nad Račou pripomína kríž |trans-title=Cross commemorates airplane crash over Rača |url=http://cestovanie.sme.sk/clanok.asp?cl=3017046 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206115507/http://cestovanie.sme.sk:80/clanok.asp?cl=3017046 |archive-date=December 6, 2007 |accessdate=8 December 2007 |website= |publisher=[[SME (newspaper)|SME]] |language=Slovak}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] 
** [[1966 Australian federal election]]: [[Harold Holt]]'s [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Holt government|government]] is re-elected with a significantly increased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Arthur Calwell]]. Calwell resigns as Labor leader shortly after; he will be [[1967 Australian Labor Party leadership election|replaced]] by his deputy and future [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Gough Whitlam]].
** In the [[Canadian Football League]], the [[Saskatchewan Roughriders]] defeat the [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] to win the [[54th Grey Cup]] at [[Vancouver]]'s [[Empire Stadium (Vancouver)|Empire Stadium]] 29–14. Saskatchewan are led by quarterback [[Ron Lancaster]].
* [[November 27]] – The [[Washington Redskins]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] 72–41 in the highest scoring game in [[National Football League]] history.
* [[November 28]] – [[Truman Capote]]'s [[Black and White Ball]] ("The Party of the Century") is held in New York City.
* [[November 29]] – The {{SS|Daniel J. Morrell}} sinks in a storm on [[Lake Huron]], killing 28 of 29 crewmen.
* [[November 30]] – [[Barbados]] achieves [[Barbados Independence Act 1966|independence]] from the United Kingdom.

===December===
{{main|December 1966}}
* [[December 1]]
** [[Kurt Georg Kiesinger]] is elected [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor of West Germany]].
** British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] and [[Rhodesia]]n Prime minister [[Ian Smith]] negotiate aboard {{HMS|Tiger|C20|6}} in the Mediterranean.
* [[December 2]] – [[U Thant]] agrees to serve a second term as United Nations Secretary General.
* [[December 3]] – Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in [[Macau]]; a [[curfew]] is declared the next day.
* [[December 5]] – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''[[Bond v. Floyd]]'' that the Georgia House of Representatives must seat Julian Bond, having violated his [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]] rights.
* [[December 6]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Bình Hòa massacre]].
* [[December 7]]
** [[Syria]] offers weapons to rebels in [[Jordan]].
** [[Barbados]] is [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 230|admitted to the United Nations]].
* [[December 8]] – The Typaldos Line's ferry {{SS|Heraklion}} sinks in rough seas in the [[Aegean Sea]] near [[Crete]], leaving 217 dead.
* [[December 16]]
** The United Nations Security Council approves an oil embargo against [[Rhodesia]].
** The [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]] and the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]] are adopted by the General Assembly, as Resolution 2200 A (XXI).
* [[December 17]] – South Africa does not join the [[trade embargo]] against [[Rhodesia]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (television special)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', narrated by [[Boris Karloff]], is shown for the first time on [[CBS]] in the United States. It becomes a [[Christmas]] tradition.
* [[December 19]] – The [[Asian Development Bank]] begins operations.
* [[December 20]] – U.K. Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] withdraws all his previous offers to the [[Rhodesia]]n government and announces that he will agree to [[independence]] for the country only after the establishment of a Black majority government there.
* [[December 22]] – Prime Minister [[Ian Smith]] declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
* [[December 26]] – The first [[Kwanzaa]] is celebrated by [[Maulana Karenga]], founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and chair of [[Black Studies]] at [[California State University, Long Beach]], from 1989 to 2002.<ref>{{cite book |author=Karenga (Maulana) |title=Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyQ9AAAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Kawaida Publications |isbn=978-0-943412-02-3 |page=20}}</ref>
* [[December 31]]
** East German Premier [[Walter Ulbricht]] discusses negotiations about [[German reunification]].
** Eight paintings worth millions of pounds are stolen from [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]] in London, but are recovered locally within a week.
** The Congolese government takes over the [[Union Minière du Haut Katanga]].

===Date unknown===
* [[Konstantin Chernenko]], later leader of the [[Soviet Union]], becomes a candidate member of the [[Central Committee]].
* [[Lise Meitner]] and [[Otto Hahn]] are awarded the [[Fermi Prize]].
* The [[Congress of the United States]] creates the National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development.
* [[Martin Richards (computer scientist)|Martin Richards]] designs the programming language [[BCPL]].
* The World Buddhist [[Sangha (Buddhism)|Sangha]] Council is convened by [[Theravada|Theravadins]] in [[Sri Lanka]], with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
* ''The [[Jerusalem Bible]]'', a [[Roman Catholic]] translation, is published in English.
* [[Peter L. Berger]] and [[Thomas Luckmann]] publish ''[[The Social Construction of Reality]]''.
* [[Long-term potentiation]] (LTP), the putative [[cell (biology)|cellular]] mechanism of [[learning]] and [[memory]], is first observed by [[Terje Lømo]] in [[Oslo]], Norway.
* In or about this year, one person returning to [[Haiti]] from the [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]] is thought to have first brought [[HIV]] to the [[Americas]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Solved: the mystery of how AIDS left Africa |journal=[[New Scientist]] |date=November 3, 2007 |page=20}}</ref>

==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}

===January===
[[File:Ivica Dačić (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Ivica Dačić]]]]
[[File:Christian Kern 2016 (portrait).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Christian Kern]]]]
[[File:Nadia Maftouni Yale Library.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Nadia Maftouni]]]]
[[File:Lena Philipsson 2012-11-07 001.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Lena Philipsson]]]]
[[File:Stefan Edberg 2012-04-25 001.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Stefan Edberg]]]]
[[File:Rainn Wilson 2011 Shankbone 2.JPG|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Rainn Wilson]]]]
[[File:Senador Romário (Retrato oficial).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Romário]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Ivica Dačić]], Serbian politician, [[Prime Minister of Serbia]] 2012–2014<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |title=Serbia's Leadership of the OSCE: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe... February 25, 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xapn6foIA0IC&pg=PT1 |year=2015 |publisher=U.S. Government Publishing Office |pages=1}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] – [[Christian Kern]], Austrian politician, 24th [[Chancellor of Austria]]<ref>(2019) Kern, Christian (Austria). In: The Statesman's Yearbook Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95839-9_395</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Sharon Cuneta]], Filipino actress, host and singer<ref>{{cite episode |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIh27YrW_c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/SeIh27YrW_c |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Sharon Cuneta |series=[[Magandang Gabi, Bayan]] |network=[[ABS-CBN]] |last=de Castro |first=Noli |year=1997 |access-date=March 22, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Corrie Sanders]], South African boxer (d. [[2012]])
* [[January 8]]
** [[Igor Vyazmikin]], Russian ice hockey player (d. [[2009]])
** [[Andrew Wood (singer)|Andrew Wood]], American musician (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Nick|last=Talevski |title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries |publisher=Omnibus |year=1999 |isbn=9780711975484 |page=481}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Patrick Dempsey]], American actor and race car driver<ref>{{cite book |author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |title=Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd2bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |isbn=978-1-61535-329-3 |pages=44}}</ref>
* [[January 14]]
** [[Nadia Maftouni]], Iranian philosopher<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sooremehr.ir/author/2935 |publisher=Soore Mehr Publications |title=Nadia Maftouni |language=fa |access-date=Oct 19, 2021 |archive-date=October 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019054509/https://sooremehr.ir/author/2935 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Dan Schneider]], American television producer, screenwriter and actor
* [[January 17]]
** [[Shabba Ranks]], Jamaican singer<ref>{{cite book |first=Joel |last=Whitburn |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99fXAAAAMAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Record Research |isbn=978-0-89820-172-7 |page=690}}</ref>
** [[Nobuyuki Kojima]], Korean footballer
* [[January 19]]
** [[Floris Jan Bovelander]], Dutch field-hockey player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/floris-jan-bovelander |title=Floris Jan Bovelander |website=IOC |access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Stefan Edberg]], Swedish tennis player<ref>{{cite book |author=Salem Press |title=Great Athletes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbNZAAAAYAAJ |year=2009 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-1-58765-480-0 |page=267}}</ref>
** [[Lena Philipsson]], Swedish singer and media personality
* [[January 20]] – [[Rainn Wilson]], American actor, writer and producer
* [[January 22]] – [[Jegath Gaspar Raj]], Tamil Maiyam founder
* [[January 27]] – [[Tamlyn Tomita]], Japanese–born American actress
* [[January 28]] – [[Andrea Berg]], German singer
* [[January 29]] – [[Romário]], Brazilian footballer and politician<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter|last=Arnold |title=World Cup USA 94: The Official FIFA Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQFqSDPqpZUC |year=1994 |publisher=Collins Publishers |isbn=978-0-00-255231-8 |page=32}}</ref>

===February===
[[File:Cindy Crawford in London.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Cindy Crawford]]]]
[[File:TéaLeoniJun07.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Téa Leoni]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Michelle Akers]], American footballer
* [[February 5]] – [[José María Olazábal]], Spanish golfer<ref>{{cite book |first=Andrew|last=Podnieks |title=Golf Now! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-_mkB1Xh64C |year=2008 |publisher=Firefly Books |isbn=978-1-55407-259-0 |page=128}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[Rick Astley]], British pop singer
* [[February 7]] – [[Kristin Otto]], German swimmer
* [[February 8]] – [[Hristo Stoichkov]], Bulgarian footballer
* [[February 9]] – [[Ellen van Langen]], Dutch athlete
* [[February 11]] – [[Cristina Elena Grigoraș]], Romanian artistic gymnast
* [[February 13]] – [[Neal McDonough]], American actor
* [[February 17]] 
** [[Quorthon]], Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. [[2004]])
** [[Atle Skårdal]], Norwegian alpine skier<ref>{{cite web |title=Atle Skårdal |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/97617 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Cindy Crawford]], American model and actress
* [[February 22]] – [[Rachel Dratch]], American actress and comedian
* [[February 23]]
**[[Alexandre Borges]], Brazilian actor
**[[Didier Queloz]], Swiss-born astronomer, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[February 24]] – [[Billy Zane]], American actor
* [[February 25]]
** [[Samson Kitur]], Kenyan athlete
** [[Téa Leoni]], American actress
* [[February 26]]
** [[Jennifer Grant]], American actress
** [[Najwa Karam]], Lebanese singer
* [[February 27]] – [[Alison Gertz]], American AIDS activist (d. [[1992]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Paulo Futre]], Portuguese footballer
** [[Ickey Woods]], American football player

===March===
[[File:Zack Snyder by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Zack Snyder]]]]
[[File:DJ Preemo - Gods of Rap Tour 2019 - Berlin (1 von 6) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[DJ Premier]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Zack Snyder]], American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
* [[March 2]] – [[Sheren Tang]], Hong Kong actress
* [[March 3]]
** [[Fernando Colunga]], Mexican actor
** [[Vander Lee]], Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. [[2016]])
** [[Tone Lōc]], African-American R&B musician
* [[March 4]]
** [[Steve Bastoni]], Australian actor
** [[Kevin Johnson (basketball)|Kevin Johnson]], American basketball player
** [[Dav Pilkey]], American comic book writer and illustrator<ref name="ohioctb">{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors.aspx?id=125&mode=detail |title=Dav Pilkey |access-date=August 8, 2007 |year=2003 |work=Ohio Authors Online |publisher=Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928065256/http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors.aspx?id=125&mode=detail |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – [[Atsushi Sakurai]], Japanese musician (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Tony Lockett]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[March 10]] – [[Edie Brickell]], American singer
* [[March 13]] – [[Chico Science]], Brazilian musician (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Espen Hammer]], Norwegian philosopher
* [[March 18]] – [[Jerry Cantrell]], American guitarist and singer
* [[March 21]]
**[[Adam Rudawski]], politician, economist, and academic professor
**[[DJ Premier]], American record producer and DJ
* [[March 22]] – [[Martha McSally]], American politician and military pilot<ref>{{cite web |title=MCSALLY, Martha |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M001197 |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref>
* [[March 25]]
** [[Tom Glavine]], American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
** [[Jeff Healey]], Canadian guitarist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Remig Stumpf]], German cyclist (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Michael Imperioli]], American actor
* [[March 29]] – [[Krasimir Balakov]], Bulgarian footballer

===April===
[[File:Robin Wright Cannes 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Robin Wright]]]]
[[File:Jeffrey Dean Morgan by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Teddy Sheringham]], British footballer<ref>{{FIFA player|95558}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Elisabeth Fritzl]], Austrian girl which have [[sexually abused]] by her father [[Josef Fritzl]] in the [[Fritzl case]]
* [[April 8]]
** [[Cynthia Nixon]], American actress
** [[Robin Wright]], American actress
* [[April 11]] – [[Lisa Stansfield]], British soul singer
* [[April 13]] – [[Ali Boumnijel]], Tunisian footballer
* [[April 14]] – [[Greg Maddux]], American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
* [[April 15]] – [[Samantha Fox]], British model and singer<ref name=Shott>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/ben-shotts-almanac-for-april-2008-2j2g85h0bhm |title=Ben Shott's Almanac for April 2008 |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=23 February 2018 |last1=Schott |first1=Ben}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Vikram (actor)|Vikram]], Indian actor
* [[April 18]] – [[Trine Hattestad]], Norwegian athlete
* [[April 20]] – [[David Chalmers]], Australian philosopher<ref>{{cite book |first=David John |last=Chalmers |title=Toward a Theory of Consciousness |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjceAQAAMAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=Indiana University}}</ref>
* [[April 22]] – [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]], American actor
* [[April 26]]
** [[Andrea Temesvári]], Hungarian tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrea Temesvari |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/200014/name |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
** [[Natasha Trethewey]], Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
* [[April 27]] – [[Yoshihiro Togashi]], Japanese author and illustrator<ref>{{cite book |title=YuYu Hakusho Uncovered: The Unofficial Guide |author1=Fujie, Kazuhisa |author2=Wyman, Walt |name-list-style=amp |year=2005 |publisher=DH Publishing Inc |location=Tokyo, Japan |pages=11–2}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] 
**[[Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966)|Ali-Reza Pahlavi]], titular prince of Iran (d. [[2011]])
** [[Jackson Galaxy]], American cat behaviorist

===May===
[[File:Charlie Schlatter (41695584254).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Charlie Schlatter]]]]
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[[File:Greg Wise 2013.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Greg Wise]]]]
[[File:JanetJacksonUnbreakableTourSanFran2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Janet Jackson]]]]
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[[File:Helena Bonham Carter 2011 AA.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Helena Bonham Carter]]]]
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* [[May 3]] – [[Firdous Bamji]], Indian-American actor
* [[May 5]] – [[Lyubov Yegorova (cross-country skier)|Lyubov Yegorova]], Russian cross-country skier
* [[May 6]]
** [[Andrea Chiesa]], Swiss Formula One driver
** [[Cindy Hsu]], American Emmy Award-winning journalist
* [[May 7]]
** [[Anderson Cummins]], Canadian cricketer
** [[Jes Høgh]], Danish footballer
* [[May 8]]
** [[Robert J. Behnen]], American genealogist and politician 
** [[Kamil Kašťák]], Czech ice hockey player
** [[Marta Sánchez]], Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
** [[Cláudio Taffarel]], Brazilian goalkeeper<ref>{{NFT player|13639}}</ref>
* [[May 10]]
** [[Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)|Jonathan Edwards]], British athlete
** [[Anne Elvebakk]], Norwegian biathlete<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Anne Elvebakk Linn |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=December 10, 2022 |editor= |publisher= |location= |url=http://www.snl.no/Anne_Elvebakk_Linn |language=Norwegian |accessdate=30 November 2023}}</ref> 
** [[Genaro Hernández]], Mexican-American boxer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/sports/genaro-hernandez-twice-a-world-champion-dies-at-45.html?ref=deathsobituaries |title=Genaro Hernandez, Twice a World Champion, Dies at 45 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |work=The New York Times |date=June 8, 2011}}</ref>
* [[May 12]]
** [[Stephen Baldwin]], American actor
** [[Bebel Gilberto]], Brazilian popular singer
* [[May 13]]
** [[Cheryl Dunye]], Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
** [[Darius Rucker]], African-American country singer
* [[May 15]] - [[Greg Wise]], English actor and producer
* [[May 16]]
** [[Janet Jackson]], African-American R&B singer<ref>{{cite web |title=Janet Jackson &#124; Biography, Songs, & Facts &#124; Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janet-Jackson |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=16 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Juan Manuel Funes]], Guatemalan footballer and coach
* [[May 17]] – [[Qusay Hussein]], Iraqi politician (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Polly Walker]], English actress
* [[May 20]] – [[Mindy Cohn]], American actress
* [[May 21]]
** [[Lisa Edelstein]], American actress and playwright
** [[François Omam-Biyik]], Cameroonian football player
* [[May 22]] – [[Siri Eftedal]], Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
* [[May 23]]
** [[H. Jon Benjamin]], American actor and comedian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worcesterma.gov/city-clerk/certificates-licenses/birth-certificates/search-results?field1=Benjamin&field2=&field3=Harry |title=Worcester, Mass. Public Records |access-date=2018-11-25}}</ref> 
** [[Graeme Hick]], English cricketer
* [[May 24]]
** [[Eric Cantona]], French footballer<ref>{{cite book |first=Keir |last=Radnedge |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Soccer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tcZAQAAIAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Universe Pub. |isbn=978-0-7893-0670-8 |page=183}}</ref>
** [[Francisco Javier Cruz]], Mexican football player
* [[May 25]] – [[Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh]], Iranian goalkeeper
* [[May 26]]
** [[Helena Bonham Carter]], English actress
** [[Zola Budd]], South African athlete
* [[May 27]]
** [[Heston Blumenthal]], British chef
** [[Carol Campbell (actress)|Carol Campbell]], Afro-German actress, model and presenter
* [[May 30]] – [[Thomas Häßler]], German football player

===June===
[[File:Julianna Margulies at 2015 PaleyFest.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Julianna Margulies]]]]
[[File:Emmanuelle Seigner Cannes 2013 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Emmanuelle Seigner]]]]
[[File:J. J. Abrams by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[J. J. Abrams]]]]
[[File:John Cusack Cannes 2014.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[John Cusack]]]]
[[File:Gubernur DKI Basuki TP 鐘萬學.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Basuki Tjahaja Purnama]]]]
[[File:Mike Tyson 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Mike Tyson]]]]
* [[June 3]] – [[Wasim Akram]], Pakistani cricketer
* [[June 4]]
** [[Cecilia Bartoli]], Italian mezzo-soprano
** [[Svetlana Jitomirskaya]], American mathematician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Svetlana Jitomirskaya - Biography |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jitomirskaya/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Maths History |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Vladimir Voevodsky]], Russian mathematician (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vladimir Voevodsky - Biography |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Voevodsky/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Maths History |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 6]]
** [[Faure Gnassingbé]], President of Togo
** [[Folkert Thiadens]], Dutch politician
* [[June 7]] – [[Tom McCarthy (director)|Tom McCarthy]], American film director and actor
* [[June 8]] – [[Julianna Margulies]], American actress and producer
* [[June 13]] – [[Grigori Perelman]], Russian mathematician
* [[June 15]] – [[Gwen Walz]], [[First ladies of Minnesota|First Lady of Minnesota]] since 2019 and wife of [[Tim Walz]]
* [[June 16]] – [[Jan Železný]], Czech javelin thrower
* [[June 18]] – [[Kurt Browning]], Canadian figure skater
* [[June 19]] – [[Samuel West]], British actor
* [[June 22]]
** [[Michael Park (co-driver)|Michael Park]], British rally co-driver (d. [[2005]])
** [[Emmanuelle Seigner]], French actress
** [[Dean Woods]], Australian cyclist and Olympic champion (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.auscycling.org.au/nat/news/vale-dean-woods-oam-olympic-gold-medallist-passes-away-aged-55 |title=Vale Dean Woods OAM: Olympic gold medallist passes away aged 55 |website=AusCycling}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] – [[Richie Jen]], Taiwanese musician
* [[June 24]] – [[Adrienne Shelly]], American actress, film director and screenwriter (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Dikembe Mutombo]], Congolese-American basketball player (d. [[2024]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Dany Boon]], French comedian and filmmaker
* [[June 27]] – [[J. J. Abrams]], American television writer and producer
* [[June 28]]
** [[John Cusack]], American actor
** [[Mary Stuart Masterson]], American actress
* [[June 29]] – [[Basuki Tjahaja Purnama]], Indonesian politician, governor of [[Jakarta]]
* [[June 30]]
** [[Cheryl Bernard]], Canadian Olympic curler
** [[Marton Csokas]], New Zealand actor
** [[Mike Tyson]], African-American boxer<ref>{{cite book |first=David L. |last=Porter |title=African-American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLFhNYLJD-sC&pg=PA347 |year=1995 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-28987-3 |pages=347}}</ref>

===July===
[[File:2024-03-08 SXSW-2024 Variety-comedy-awards 04899 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Pamela Adlon]]]]
[[File:Blue Demon, Jr.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Blue Demon Jr.]]]]
[[File:Enrique Peña Nieto 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Enrique Peña Nieto]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Enrico Annoni]], Italian footballer
** [[Samir Rifai]], [[Prime Minister of Jordan]]
* [[July 3]]
** [[Isabelle Emmery]], Belgian politician, MP.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Isabelle Emmery |url=https://www.lachambre.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm?section=/depute&language=nl&cfm=cvview54.cfm?key=06255&lactivity=53 |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=www.lachambre.be}}</ref>
** [[František Štorm]], Czech musician ([[Master's Hammer]]) and typographer
* [[July 5]] – [[Gianfranco Zola]], Italian footballer
* [[July 8]] – [[Michael Hite]], American politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Hite (R - Berkeley, 092) |url=https://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20Hite |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=West Virginia Legislature}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – [[Pamela Adlon]], American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
* [[July 10]] – [[Gina Bellman]], New Zealand-British actress
* [[July 11]] – [[Kentaro Miura]], Japanese author and illustrator (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kentaro Miura, Creator of Epic Manga 'Berserk,' Dies at 54 |date=May 25, 2021 |first=Alex |last=Traub |website=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/arts/kentaro-miura-dead.html |access-date=May 30, 2022}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Matthew Fox]], American actor<ref>{{cite news |title=UPI Almanac for Sunday, July 14, 2020 |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/07/14/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-July-14-2020/9821594303932/ |work=[[United Press International]] |date=July 14, 2020 |access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] – [[Irène Jacob]], French-born actress
* [[July 18]]
** [[Dan O'Brien]], American athlete<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14247409 |title=Dan O'Brien |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
** [[Lori Alan]], American voice actress
* [[July 19]] – [[Blue Demon Jr.]]
* [[July 20]] – [[Enrique Peña Nieto]], [[President of Mexico]] (2012–2018), Governor of the [[State of Mexico]] (2005–2011)<ref>
{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/9841/Enrique%20Pena%20Nieto |publisher=Busca Biografias |title=Enrique Peña Nieto |language=es |access-date=May 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531000722/https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/9841/Enrique%20Pena%20Nieto |archive-date=May 31, 2019 |url-status=live}}
</ref>
* [[July 21]] – [[Sarah Waters]], British novelist
* [[July 26]] – [[Angelo Di Livio]], Italian footballer
* [[July 28]] – [[Miguel Ángel Nadal]], Spanish footballer
* [[July 29]] – [[Richard Steven Horvitz]], American actor and voice actor
* [[July 30]] – [[Murilo Bustamante]], Brazilian mixed martial artist
* [[July 31]] – [[Dean Cain]], American actor

===August===
[[File:Jimmy Wales - August 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Jimmy Wales]]]]
[[File:Halle Berry by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Halle Berry]]]]
[[File:René Higuita, 2007.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Rene Higuita]]]]
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[[File:Enrico Letta 2013.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.55|[[Enrico Letta]]]]
* [[August 4]] - [[Philippe Maidenberg]], French architect, interior designer and furnishing designer
* [[August 5]] – [[James Gunn]], American filmmaker<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Gunn biography and filmography &#124; James Gunn movies |url=https://www.tribute.ca/people/james-gunn/14920/ |access-date=2022-01-30 |website=Tribute |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] 
** [[Harith Iskander]], Malaysian actor and comedian
** [[Jimmy Wales]], American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of [[Wikipedia]]<ref name='WMF PR 2004-04-25'>{{cite web |url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_press_releases/500,000_Wikipedia_articles&oldid=473206 |title=Wikipedia: 50 languages, 1/2 million articles |access-date=April 10, 2009 |date=April 25, 2004 |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |quote=''The Wikipedia project was founded in January 2001 by internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher [[Larry Sanger]]'' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504172406/http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_press_releases%2F500%2C000_Wikipedia_articles&oldid=473206 |archive-date=May 4, 2015 |url-status=live}}. Quoted from the April 25, 2004, first-ever press release issued by the Wikimedia Foundation.</ref>
* [[August 9]]
** [[Glenn Postolski]], Argentine professor (d. 2024)
* [[August 10]]
** [[Hossam Hassan]], Egyptian footballer
** [[André Sogliuzzo]], American actor and voice actor
* [[August 11]] – [[Juan María Solare]], Argentine composer
* [[August 12]] – [[Les Ferdinand]], English footballer
* [[August 14]]
** [[Halle Berry]], American actress<ref>{{cite book |first=Frank |last=Sanello |title=Halle Berry: A Stormy Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ck0dAQAAIAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Virgin Books |isbn=978-1-85227-092-6 |page=4}}</ref>
** [[Freddy Rincón]], Colombian footballer (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Rodney Mullen]], American skateboarder
* [[August 19]] – [[Lee Ann Womack]], American musician
* [[August 20]]
** [[Dimebag Darrell]], American guitarist (d. [[2004]])
** [[Enrico Letta]], 55th [[Prime Minister of Italy]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Turner |first=Barry |title=The Statesman's Yearbook : the politics, cultures and economies of the world |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |year=2013 |isbn=9781349596430 |page=74}}</ref>
** [[Liu Chunyan]], Chinese voice actress and host
* [[August 23]] – [[Rik Smits]], Dutch basketball player
* [[August 26]] 
** [[Jacques Brinkman]], Dutch field hockey player
** [[Shirley Manson]], Scottish musician
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Jeroen Duyster]], Dutch rower
** [[Juhan Parts]], 15th [[Prime Minister of Estonia]]
* [[August 28]] – [[Priya Dutt]], Indian social worker and politician

===September===
[[File:Salma Hayek-9894.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Salma Hayek]]]]
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[[File:Adam Sandler 2018 (Lc9jYc07e54).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Adam Sandler]]]]
[[File:Prince and Princess Akishino during their visit to México City (2014) (3) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan]]]]
[[File:Nechirvan Barzani meets with Ali Shamkhani, Tehan 21 January 2018 (29915) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Nechirvan Barzani]]]]
[[File:Maria Canals Barrera 2, 2007.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Maria Canals-Barrera]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[Tim Hardaway]], American basketball player
* [[September 2]] – [[Salma Hayek]], Mexican-American actress
* [[September 4]] – [[Yanka Dyagileva]], Russian singer (d. [[1991]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Emil Boc]], 61st Prime Minister of Romania
** [[Eduardo Maruri]], Ecuadorian businessman and politician
* [[September 7]]
** [[Vladimir Andreyev (racewalker)|Vladimir Andreyev]], Russian race walker
** [[Toby Jones]], English actor
** [[Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann]], German speed skater
* [[September 8]] – [[Carola Häggkvist]], Swedish pop singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] [[Eurovision Song Contest 1991|1991]] winner{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
* [[September 9]]
** [[Georg Hackl]], German [[skiing|luger]]
** [[Adam Sandler]], American actor and comedian
* [[September 12]] 
** [[Steve Ells]], American entrepreneur and founder of [[Chipotle Mexican Grill]]
** [[Ben Folds]], American singer-songwriter & pianist<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAf6RxnrqM&t=226s | title=Jon Batiste - Matching Technique with Creativity and How Discipline Differs from Drive - YouTube | website=[[YouTube]] | date=April 15, 2021 }}</ref>
** [[Kiko, Princess Akishino|Princess Akishino]] of Japan
** [[Malu Mader]], Brazilian actress
* [[September 20]] – [[Nuno Bettencourt]], Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter 
* [[September 21]] – [[Nechirvan Barzani]], [[President of Iraqi Kurdistan]]
* [[September 22]]
** [[Erdoğan Atalay]], German actor
** [[Moustafa Amar]], Egyptian singer 
* [[September 25]] – [[Jason Flemyng]], English actor
* [[September 26]] – [[Jenn Hill]], American politician and member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] since 2023
* [[September 27]] – [[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]], Member of the US House from [[Florida]]
* [[September 28]] – [[Maria Canals-Barrera]], American actress
* [[September 29]] – [[Bujar Nishani]], [[President of Albania]] (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://albaniandailynews.com/news/president-bujar-bishani-passes-away-aged-56 |title=President Bujar Nishani passes away aged 56 |date=May 28, 2022 |first=Eduart |last=Halili |website=Albanian Daily News |access-date=May 30, 2022}}</ref>

===October===
[[File:David Cameron official.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[David Cameron]]]]
[[File:Luke Perry by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Luke Perry]]]]
[[File:Jon Favreau 2016.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Jon Favreau]]]]
[[File:Roman Abramovich 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Roman Abramovich]]]]
[[File:Zahn McClarnon 2016.png|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Zahn McClarnon]]]]
[[File:16 obljetnica vojnoredarstvene operacije Oluja 04082011 Zoran Milanovic 38.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Zoran Milanović]]]]
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Ashab Uddin]], Indian politician<ref name=net>{{cite web |url=https://myneta.info/manipur2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=159 |website=My Neta |title=Ashab Uddin |access-date=12 December 2020}}</ref>
** [[George Weah]], Liberian politician and football player<ref>{{cite book |author1=Emmanuel Akyeampong |author2=Henry Louis Gates |title=Dictionary of African Biography |publisher=OUP USA |year=2012 |page=159}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] – [[Yokozuna (wrestler)|Rodney Anoa'i]], Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. [[2000]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Inessa Kravets]], Ukrainian athlete
* [[October 6]] – [[Niall Quinn]], Irish footballer
* [[October 7]] – [[Sherman Alexie]], Native American author<ref>{{cite book |last=Johansen |first=Bruce E. |title=Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanst00joha |url-access=limited |year=2010 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=978-0-313-35554-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanst00joha/page/n31 7]–10}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[David Cameron]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] 2010-2016<ref>{{cite book |title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited |isbn=978-0-905702-66-7 |page=96}}</ref>
* [[October 10]]
** [[Tony Adams]], English footballer
** [[Carolyn Bertozzi]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite press release |title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 |date=2022-10-05 |publisher=The Nobel Prize |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/ |accessdate=2022-10-06}}</ref>
** [[Bai Ling]], Chinese actress
** [[Elana Meyer]], South African athlete<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/elana-meyer |title=Elana Meyer |website=IOC |access-date=February 23, 2021}}</ref> 
* [[October 11]] – [[Luke Perry]], American actor (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 5, 2019 |date=March 4, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/arts/luke-perry-dead.html |title=Luke Perry, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' Star, Is Dead at 52 |first1=Neil |last1=Genzlinger |first2=Elizabeth A. |last2=Harris}}</ref>
* [[October 15]] – [[Jorge Campos]], Mexican footballer and coach
* [[October 18]] – [[Angela Visser]], Dutch winner of Miss Universe 1989
* [[October 19]] – [[Jon Favreau]], American actor and director<ref>{{cite book |author1=Gale Group |author2=Julie Keppen |title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suTpBP53JfEC |date=October 2004 |publisher=Cengage Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-6706-1 |page=84}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – [[Stefan Raab]], German entertainer, television host, comedian and musician
* [[October 22]] – [[Valeria Golino]], Italian-Greek film and television actress
* [[October 24]]
**[[Roman Abramovich]], UK-based Russian billionaire businessman<ref>{{cite book |author1=William D. Rubinstein |author2=Michael Jolles |author3=Hilary L. Rubinstein |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA11 |date=22 February 2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4 |pages=11}}</ref> 
**[[Zahn McClarnon]], American actor
* [[October 25]] – [[Wendel Clark]], Canadian hockey player
* [[October 28]] – [[Andy Richter]], American actor, writer, comedian and late-night talk show announcer
* [[October 30]] – [[Zoran Milanović]], Croatian politician, [[President of Croatia]]
* [[October 31]]
**[[Ad-Rock|Adam Horovitz]], American rapper 
**[[Mike O'Malley]], American actor and playwright

===November===
[[File:David Schwimmer 2011.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[David Schwimmer]]]]
<!--[[File:Gordon_Ramsay_colour_Allan_Warren.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Gordon Ramsay]]]]-->
[[File:Vincent Cassel le moine.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Vincent Cassel]]]]
<!--[[File:GarcelleBeauvaisNilon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Garcelle Beauvais]]]]-->
*[[November 2]]
**[[David Schwimmer]], American actor
* [[November 3]] – [[Joe Hachem]], Lebanese-born Australian poker player
* [[November 8]] – [[Gordon Ramsay]], British chef, restaurateur and television personality
* [[November 11]]
** [[Benedicta Boccoli]], Italian model and actress
** [[Peaches (musician)|Peaches]], Canadian musician 
* [[November 15]] – [[Rachel True]], American actress
* [[November 17]]
** [[Jeff Buckley]], American singer-songwriter (d. [[1997]])<ref>[[David Browne (journalist)|Browne, David]]. ''[[Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley]].'' HarperEntertainment. 2001, 2002. {{ISBN|0-380-80624-X}} page 58</ref>
** [[Daisy Fuentes]], Cuban-born American model and television personality
** [[Sophie Marceau]], French actress<ref>{{cite book |author=((Editors of Chase's)) |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA559 |date=24 September 2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-316-7 |pages=559}}</ref>
* [[November 19]]
** [[Gail Devers]], American track and field athlete<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/gail-devers |title=Gail Devers |website=IOC |access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Jason Scott Lee]], American actor and martial artist<ref>{{cite book |first=Amy L. |last=Unterburger |title=Who's who Among Asian Americans, 1994-95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=266P13_j77EC |year=1994 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-8103-9433-9 |page=334}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] 
** [[Orlando Jorge Mera]], Dominican politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61712872 |title=Dominican Republic minister shot dead in office |work=BBC News |date=June 6, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Michael K. Williams]], American actor (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Julia |last2=Correal |first2=Annie |last3=Haag |first3=Matthew |last4=Egner |first4=Jeremy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/arts/michael-k-williams-dead.html |date=September 6, 2021 |title=Michael K. Williams, Omar From 'The Wire,' Is Dead at 54 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 7, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] 
**[[Vincent Cassel]], French actor
**[[Michelle Gomez]], Scottish actress
* [[November 25]]
** [[Billy Burke (actor)|Billy Burke]], American actor
** [[Roberto Rojas (politician)|Roberto Rojas]], Bolivian politician (d. 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.paginasiete.bo/sociedad/fallece-el-exdiputado-del-mas-roberto-rojas-XD4665101 |title=Fallece el exdiputado del MAS Roberto Rojas |first=Redacción Diario Página Siete Autor marcado para |last=seguir |website=www.paginasiete.bo}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Garcelle Beauvais]], Haitian-American actress, singer and fashion model<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/garcelle-beauvais/189958/ |title=Garcelle Beauvais |publisher=[[TV Guide|TVGuide.com]] |access-date=July 24, 2016 |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509174859/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/garcelle-beauvais/bio/189958/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><!--site is live but birthdate appears only in archived versions--> 
* [[November 28]] – [[Narumi Yasuda]], Japanese actress
* [[November 29]] – [[John Bradshaw Layfield]], American professional wrestler

===December===
<!--[[File:Fred Armisen 2014 cropped and retouched.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Fred Armisen]]]]-->
[[File:Patricia Kaas Cannes.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Patricia Kaas]]]]
[[File:Kiefer Sutherland 2 SDCC 2014.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Kiefer Sutherland]]]]
* [[December 4]] – [[Fred Armisen]], American actor, comedian and musician
* [[December 5]] – [[Patricia Kaas]], French singer and actress
* [[December 7]]
** [[C. Thomas Howell]], American actor and director
** [[Linn Ullmann]], Norwegian journalist and author
* [[December 8]] – [[Sinéad O'Connor]], Irish singer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/26/sinead-oconnor-obituary |title=Sinéad O'Connor obituary |date=26 July 2023 |first=Caroline |last=Sullivan |website=The Guardian |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Glenn Youngkin]], American businessman and politician
* [[December 10]] 
** [[Kirsten Gillibrand]], American politician; United States Senator (D-NY)
** [[Gideon Sa'ar]], Israeli politician
** [[Kadyrbek Sarbayev]], foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan
** [[Natee Thongsookkaew]], Thailand footballer
* [[December 12]] – [[Último Dragón]], Japanese professional wrestler
* [[December 14]] – [[Helle Thorning-Schmidt]], Danish Prime Minister<ref>{{cite book |title=Dod's European Companion |publisher=Dod |year=2003 |page=323}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – [[Katja von Garnier]], German film director
* [[December 17]] – [[Miloš Tichý]], Czech astronomer
* [[December 19]]
** [[Tim Sköld]], Swedish multi-instrumentalist musician
** [[Alberto Tomba]], Italian alpine skier
* [[December 20]] – [[Ed de Goeij]], Dutch footballer
* [[December 21]]
**[[Kiefer Sutherland]], Canadian actor and film director<ref>{{cite book |title=Photoplay Movies & Video |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRkIAQAAMAAJ |year=1985 |publisher=Photoplay/M.A.P. Limited}}</ref> 
**[[William Samoei Ruto]], 5th President of the [[Republic of Kenya]]
* [[December 22]] – [[Dmitry Bilozerchev]], Soviet gymnast
* [[December 23]] – [[Cláudia Raia]], Brazilian actress, dancer and singer
* [[December 24]] – [[Diedrich Bader]], American actor and voice artist
* [[December 27]] – [[Bill Goldberg]], American professional wrestler
* [[December 28]] – [[Kaliopi]], Macedonian singer-songwriter

{{clear}}

==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]]]]
<!--[[File:Hannes Kolehmainen 1920 crop.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Hannes Kolehmainen]]]]-->
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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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<!--[[File:Javier Solís in 1966 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Javier Solís]]]]-->
* [[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>

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Alfred Kastler]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Robert S. Mulliken]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Peyton Rous]] and [[Charles Brenton Huggins]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]] and [[Nelly Sachs]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded

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