1966

القرون:	قرن 19 · قرن 20 · قرن 21st
العقود:	ع1930 ع1940 ع1950 ع1960 ع1970 ع1980 ع1990
السنوات:	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

ألفية:	الألفية 2
قرون:	القرن 19 – القرن 20 – القرن 21
عقود:	عقد 1930  عقد 1940  عقد 1950  – عقد 1960 –  عقد 1970  عقد 1980  عقد 1990
سنين:	1963 1964 1965 – 1966 – 1967 1968 1969

سنة 1966 (MCMLXVI) كانت سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم السبت (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1966 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 966 في الألفية 2، السنة 66 في القرن 20، والسنة 7 في عقد 1960.

1966 حسب الموضوع:

الموضوع

علم الآثار العمارة الفن الطيران جوائز القصص المصورة السينما الأدب (الشعر) الأرصاد الجوية الموسيقى (الكنتري) النقل بالسكك الحديدية الراديو العلوم الرياضة التلفزيون

حسب البلد

مصر سوريا العراق فلسطين السعودية اليمن الجزائر المغرب تونس تركيا إيران إثيوپيا أستراليا كندا الصين الشعبية الإكوادور فرنسا ألمانيا اليونان الهند أيرلندا إسرائيل إيطاليا اليابان لوكسمبورگ ماليزيا المكسيك نيوزيلندا النرويج پاكستان الفلپين سنغافورة جنوب أفريقيا الاتحاد السوڤيتي المملكة المتحدة الولايات المتحدة

القادة

الدول السيادية قادة الدول قادة دينيون القانون

تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات

مواليد وفيات

تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات

تأسيسات انحلالات

تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات

أعمال أطروحات

1966 في التقاويم الأخرى

التقويم الگريگوري	1966 MCMLXVI
آب أوربه كونديتا	2719
التقويم الأرمني	1415 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԵ
التقويم الآشوري	6716
التقويم البهائي	122–123
التقويم البنغالي	1373
التقويم الأمازيغي	2916
سنة العهد البريطاني	14 إليز. 2 – 15 إليز. 2
التقويم البوذي	2510
التقويم البورمي	1328
التقويم البيزنطي	7474–7475
التقويم الصيني	乙巳年 (الخشب الثعبان) 4662 أو 4602     — إلى — 丙午年 (النار الحصان) 4663 أو 4603
التقويم القبطي	1682–1683
التقويم الديسكوردي	3132
التقويم الإثيوپي	1958–1959
التقويم العبري	5726–5727
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	2022–2023
- شاكا سامڤات	1888–1889
- كالي يوگا	5067–5068
تقويم الهولوسين	11966
تقويم الإگبو	966–967
التقويم الإيراني	1344–1345
التقويم الهجري	1385–1386
التقويم الياباني	Shōwa 41 (昭和４１年)
تقويم جوچى	55
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4299
تقويم مينگوو	جمهورية الصين 55 民國55年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2509

In February، Luna 9 makes the first controlled landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The Cultural Revolution begins in China in May، and there are coups d'état throughout the world.

أحداث

يناير

المقالة الرئيسية: يناير 1966

• 1 يناير – في انقلاب، استولى العقيد جان-بيدل بوكاسا كحاكم عسكري على جمهورية أفريقيا الوسطى، ousting President David Dacko.
• 2 يناير – 1966 New York City transit strike: A wildcat strike by public transportation workers in New York City, led by Mike Quill، begins، designed to coincide with the beginning of Republican John V. Lindsay's mayoralty. (The strike ends on January 13.)
• January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso).
• 4 يناير
  • The prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in طشقند.
  • Feyzin disaster: A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near ليون، فرنسا، kills 18 and injures 82.
• 10 يناير
  • Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the إعلان طشقند، a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
  • French newspaper L'Express publishes a story by agent Georges Figon who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965.
  • 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.
  • Home of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg، Mississippi، is firebombed. Dahmer's family escapes but he dies the next day from severe burns. (White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Bowers will be unsuccessfully tried for this murder on four occasions before being convicted in 1998.)
  • A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos، Nigeria، primarily to discuss Rhodesia.
• January 11 – The first Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft goes into service with the United States Air Force at Beale AFB.
• January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member، by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• 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.
• 17 يناير
  • The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military، leaving a military government in power. This is the beginning of a long period of military rule.
  • 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain، dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of 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 18
  • French police announce Georges Figon has committed suicide before he can be arrested for participation in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.
  • About 8,000 U.S. soldiers land in South Vietnam; U.S. troops there now total 190,000.
• January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in January 24.
• January 20
  • 1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election: Harold Holt is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia unopposed when Sir Robert Menzies retires after an unprecedented 16 years in office; consequently Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia six days later.
  • Demonstrations occur against high food prices in Hungary.
• 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.
  • The Chadian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan، starting the Chadian Civil War.
• January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc، killing all 117 persons on board، including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha، chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
• January 26 – Beaumont children disappearance: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg، South Australia، never to be seen again.
• 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 unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of Hull North in a 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.
• January 29 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• January 31 – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia.

فبراير

المقالة الرئيسية: فبراير 1966

• 1 فبراير – West Germany procures some 2,600 political prisoners from ألمانيا الشرقية.
• February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
• 4 فبراير
  • All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 are killed.
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree becomes the first Winnie the Pooh featurette to be released by Walt Disney Productions in the United States.
• February 7 – Lyndon Johnson of the United States and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a summit in Honolulu، Hawaii to discuss the course of the Vietnam War.
• February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years، respectively، for "anti-Soviet" writings.
• 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.
• 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 26 – A curfew is declared in Jakarta، Indonesia.
• February 28
  • British Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls a General Election in the United Kingdom، to be held on March 31.
  • U.S. astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis، Missouri.

مارس

المقالة الرئيسية: مارس 1966

• March – The DKW automobile ceases production in Germany.
• 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 asylum.
• March 4
  • Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes during a night landing in poor visibility at Tokyo International Airport in Japan، killing 64 of 72 persons 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.
  • A massive theft of nuclear materials is revealed in Brazil.
  • "Merci، Chérie" by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens، lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 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 Indonesian 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 volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
• March 9 – Ronnie، one of the Kray twins، shoots George Cornell (an associate of rivals The Richardson Gang) at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel، east London. Cornell dies later in hospital، and Kray is finally convicted in 1969.
• March 10
  • Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
  • The Frost Report، which launches the television careers of John Cleese، Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and other writers and performers، is first broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom.
  • Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ dismisses rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi، precipitating the Buddhist Uprising، large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• March 11
  • Transition to the New Order in Indonesia: President Sukarno gives all executive powers 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.
  • Chi Chi، London Zoo's giant panda، is flown to the Soviet Union for a union with An-An of Moscow Zoo.
• March 12 – Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks sets the National Hockey League single season scoring record against the New York Rangers with his 51st goal.
• March 15 – Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
• March 16
  • NASA spacecraft Gemini 8 (David Scott، Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space، with an Agena target vehicle.
  • Paul Van Doren establishes the Vans shoe company in California.
• March 17
  • More anti-communist demonstrations occur in Indonesia.
  • Palomares incident: Off the Mediterranean coast of Spain، the United States Navy submersible DSV Alvin finds a missing U.S. hydrogen bomb.
• March 19 – The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with five African American starters، ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
• 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" and his owner David Corbett، wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
• March 22 – In Washington، D.C.، General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
• March 23 – Pope Paul VI and Michael Ramsey، the Archbishop of Canterbury، meet in Rome.
• March 26 – Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.
• March 27 – In South Vietnam، 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
• March 28
  • Cevdet Sunay becomes the fifth president of Turkey.
  • Indira Gandhi visits Washington، D.C.
• 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 Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.
• March 31
  • The British 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).
  • The Soviet Union launches Luna 10، which becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

April

المقالة الرئيسية: April 1966

• April 1 – Animated sitcom The Flintstones airs its series finale on the ABC network in the United States.
• April 2 – The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations.
• April 3 – Luna 10 is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.
• April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers 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 elections.
  • Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union، as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
  • Time magazine cover story asks "Is God Dead?"
• April 9 – The captain of English football league club Norwich City F.C.، Barry Butler، is killed in a car accident.
• April 13
  • United States' magazine Time's cover story is "London: The Swinging City".
  • United States president Lyndon Johnson signs the 1966 Uniform Time Act، dealing with daylight saving time.
• 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 Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
• April 15 – An anti-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 wins Best Picture.
• April 19 – Bobbi Gibb becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.
• 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 Rasta leaders.
  • 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 24 – 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 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum 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 (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 29 – U.S. troops in Vietnam total 250,000.
• April 30
  • Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000 due to the Channel Tunnel).
  • The Church of Satan is formed by Anton Szandor LaVey in San Francisco.

May

المقالة الرئيسية: May 1966

• May 1 – Floods occur on the Finnish coast.
• May 3 – Pirate radio in the United Kingdom: Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM، with a combined potential 100,000 watts، from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.
• 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 – Moors murders trial in England ends 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 go on strike.
  • The hit single "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones is released in the United States.
• May 12
  • African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
  • The Busch Memorial Stadium opens in St Louis، Missouri.
  • 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 Vietnamese 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 Communist Party of China issues the 'May 16 Notice'، marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • A strike is called by the National Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom.
  • The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released in the United States.
  • In New York City، Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.
• May 17 – Bob Dylan is called "Judas" during his performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England.
• May 19 – Murder of Sylvia Likens: Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-old Sylvia Likens in Indiana and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December 1985).
• May 20 – Solar eclipse of May 20، 1966: A narrow annular solar eclipse occurs، the 33rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 137; greatest visibility is in Turkey and Greece.
• May 24
  • Battle of Mengo Hill: Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.
  • The Nigerian 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 Australian Task Force assigned to duties in Vietnam، leaving for Southeast Asia aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney.
• May 26 – British Guiana achieves independence، becoming Guyana.
• May 28
  • Fidel Castro declares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
  • The Indonesian and Malaysian 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.
• May 31 – The Philippines reestablishes diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

June

المقالة الرئيسية: June 1966

• June 1 – In the United States:
  • The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3، 1961).
  • White House Conference on Civil Rights opens.
• June 2
  • Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president.
  • 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 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 activist James Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the March Against Fear.
• June 8
  • A North American XB-70 Valkyrie stratigic 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 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.
• 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 suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• June 14 – The 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 20
  • French President Charles de Gaulle starts his visit to the Soviet Union.
  • Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde is released in the U.S.
• June 21 – Opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman، Sydney، Australia، sustaining minor injuries.
• June 27 – In the United States:
  • Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's debut album، Freak Out!، is released. It is an initial failure، but gains a massive cult following in subsequent years.
  • The gothic soap opera Dark Shadows premieres on ABC.
• June 28 – Argentine Revolution: In Argentina، a 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.
  • The strike by the National Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom is called off.
• June 30
  • France formally leaves NATO.
  • The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded in Washington، D.C.

July

المقالة الرئيسية: July 1966

• July 1 – Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
• 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 4
  • North Vietnam declares general mobilization.
  • American President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act، which goes into effect the following year.
  • The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) endorses the goal of Black Power at a well attended convention in Baltimore، Maryland. Martin Luther King Jr. and Roy Wilkins criticize this declaration.
• 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.
  • Horst Fischer، who had taken part in selecting people to be slaughtered at Auschwitz in the 1940s، is executed in East Germany.
• July 11
  • The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
  • British Motor Corporation and Jaguar Cars announce plans to merge as British Motor Holdings.
• July 12
  • Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
  • Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia.
• July 13 – The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is founded in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
• July 14
  • Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.
  • Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory. He is arrested on July 17.
  • Gwynfor Evans، President of Plaid Cymru، the Welsh nationalist party، becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for 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 16 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War (the Soviet government rejects his ideas).
• July 18
  • Gemini 10 (John Young، Michael Collins) is launched from the United States. After docking with an Agena target vehicle، the astronauts then set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
  • The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland، Ohio، the city's first race riot.
  • 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، an engineer، in The Hague، the Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata، but tells him not to leave the country before other Chinese engineers have left the Netherlands.
• July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville، Congo، revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.
• July 24 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
• July 24 – A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 ميل (72 km) northeast of Hanoi، the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.
• July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom، stating that the House 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 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 beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
  • London gangster Charlie Richardson is arrested by police; in 1967 he will be sentenced to 25 years in prison for his part in assaults and torture committed by the Richardson Gang.

August

المقالة الرئيسية: August 1966

• August 1
  • Sniper Charles Whitman kills 14 people and wounds 32 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower، after earlier killing his wife and mother.
  • The British Colonial Office merges with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form a new Commonwealth Office.
• August 2 – The Spanish government forbids overflights by British military aircraft.
• August 5
  • Groundbreaking takes place for the World Trade Center in New York City.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago، during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
  • The Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas.
  • The Beatles' Revolver LP is released in the United Kingdom.
• August 6
  • Braniff Flight 250 crashes in Falls City، Nebraska، killing all 42 on board.
  • René Barrientos takes office as the President of Bolivia.
  • The Salazar Bridge (later the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon، Portugal.
• August 7 – Race riots occur in Lansing، Michigan.
• August 10
  • An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the United States.
  • Lunar Orbiter 1، the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the moon، is launched.
• August 11
  • Indonesia and Malaysia issue 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
  • Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as the Sea of Galilee) for 3 hours.
  • It is announced that the New York Herald Tribune will not resume publication.
• August 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong، with the intent to make these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
• August 17 – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen.
• August 18
  • In the People's Republic of China، Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize the country's Communist Party begins in earnest with the Red August of Beijing.
  • 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 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-Nasser agitation.
• August 22
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) established.
  • The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)، predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)، is formed.
• August 24 – American rock band The Doors record their self-titled debut album.
• August 26 – The first battle of the South African Air Force and the South African Police with 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 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).

سبتمبر

المقالة الرئيسية: سبتمبر 1966

20 سبتمبر: بوتسوانا (سابقاً بتشوانالاند)، تستقل عن المملكة المتحدة كجمهورية وديمقراطية برلمانية.

• 1 سبتمبر
  • 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، Yugoslavia.
  • While waiting at a bus stop Ralph Baer، an inventor with Sanders Associates، writes a four-page document that lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multibillion-dollar industry.
• September 6 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.
• September 7 – The ocean liner إس‌إس Hanseatic catches fire and burns in New York Harbor.
• September 8 – The classic science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC in the United States with its first episode، titled "The Man Trap" (actually seen first on September 6 on CTV in Canada).
• September 9 – NATO decides to move Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to Belgium.
• September 12
  • The Monkees television series premieres on NBC in the United States.
  • Gemini 11 (Richard F. Gordon، Jr.، Pete Conrad) docks with an Agena target vehicle.
  • 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 TASS in the Soviet Union.
• September 15 – Britain's first Polaris submarine، HMS Resolution، is launched.
• September 16
  • In South Vietnam، Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.
  • The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
• September 18 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum opens to the public in California.
• September 19
  • Buster Edwards returns from Mexico to London to be arrested for involvement in the Great Train Robbery (1963).
  • Timothy Leary forms the spiritual group League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD) in the United States.
  • 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.
  • Chevrolet Camaro car is introduced in the United States.
• 30 سبتمبر
  • محمية بتشوانالاند في أفريقيا تنال استقلالها عن المملكة المتحدة، بإسم بوتسوانا، مع سرتسى خاما كأول رئيس.
  • Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison in West Berlin.

October

المقالة الرئيسية: October 1966

• October – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party in the United States.
• October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 ميل (8.9 km) south of Wemme، Oregon، the first loss of a DC-9.
• October 3
  • Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
  • استقلال ليسوتو من المملكة المتحدة.
• 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.
  • 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 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 thef Lebanese banking system.
  • The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.
• October 15
  • U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
  • The U.S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
  • ABC in the United States broadcasts a highly acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon، starring Robert Goulet، Peter Falk and Sally Ann Howes، which wins Emmy Awards and inaugurates a short-lived series of special television adaptations of famous Broadway musicals on that network.
• October 16 – Grace Slick performs live for the first time with Jefferson Airplane.
• 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.
  • The AFL-NFL merger in American football is approved by the U.S. Congress.
• October 22
  • British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London; he is next seen in Moscow.
  • Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar; Britain refuses the next day.
• October 23 – M. S. Subbulakshmi renders a South Indian Carnatic music concert at the United Nations General Assembly based on an invitation from UN Secretary U Thant which includes a benediction for world peace "Maithreem Bhajata" composed by Kanchi Mahaswamigal
• October 24 – Negotiations about the Vietnam War begin in Manila، Philippines.
• October 25
  • A military court in Jakarta sentences ex-foreign minister Subandrio to death.
  • Spain closes its Gibraltar border vehicular traffic.
• October 26
  • NATO moves its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
  • A fire aboard the aircraft carrier يوإس‌إس Oriskany 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.
  • It's the Great Pumpkin، Charlie Brown! premieres on the CBS network in the United States.
  • Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death، detailing his plans for EPCOT، a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.
• October 29
  • The Guinean delegation to the Organization of African Unity meeting in Ethiopia become hostages of the Ghanaian government in Accra.
  • October 1966 lunar eclipse: A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs، the 55th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 116.
  • Television viewers in the United Kingdom get their first sight of a regeneration in Doctor Who، as William Hartnell's features morph into those of the Second Doctor، Patrick Troughton.

November

المقالة الرئيسية: November 1966

• November 1 – The National Football League in the United States awards its sixteenth franchise to the city of New Orleans. The team will be named the New Orleans Saints.
• November 2 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force، allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residency in the United States.
• November 4 – 1966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hits Florence، flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft)، leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition، a severe tidal flood hits Venice.
• November 5 – Thirty-eight African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rhodesian government.
• November 6 – Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched.
• November 8
  • Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
  • 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 3 Israeli paratroopers on the West Bank border.
  • Spain declares general amnesty for crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War، effective only for the Falangists' side.
• November 12 – Total solar eclipse occurs، the 20th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 142.
• November 14 – Jack L. Warner sells Warner Bros. to Seven Arts Productions، which eventually becomes Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• November 15
  • Gemini 12 (James A. Lovell، Buzz Aldrin) splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean، 600 km (370 mi) east of the Bahamas.
  • A Boeing 727 freighter on Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin، Germany، killing all three crew on board.
  • Two young couples in Point Pleasant، West Virginia reportedly see a strange moth-like creature better known as the Mothman.
• November 16 – American neurosurgeon Sam Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1954.
• November 17
  • The U.N. General Assembly decides to found the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
  • A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona، at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
• November 21 – In Togo، the army crushes an attempted coup.
• November 24
  • The Beatles begin recording sessions for their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Abbey Road Studios in London.
  • Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava، Czechoslovakia، killing all 82 people on board.
• November 26
  • 1966 Australian federal election: Harold Holt's Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a significantly increased majority، defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. Calwell resigns as Labor leader shortly after; he will be replaced by his deputy and future 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 29–14. Saskatchewan were 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 إس‌إس Daniel J. Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron، killing 28 of 29 crewmen.
• November 30 – Barbados achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• Late November – The Toyota Corolla car is introduced.

December

المقالة الرئيسية: December 1966

• December 1
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger is elected Chancellor of West Germany.
  • British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate aboard إتش‌إم‌إس Tiger 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 and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
• December 6 – Vietnam War: Bình Hòa massacre.
• December 7
  • Syria offers weapons to rebels in Jordan.
  • Barbados is admitted to the United Nations.
• December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferry إس‌إس Heraklion sinks in rough seas in the Aegean Sea near Crete، leaving 217 dead.
• December 12 – Harry Roberts، John Whitney and John Duddy are sentenced to life imprisonment (each with a recommended minimum of 30 years) for the Shepherd's Bush murders of three London policemen on August 12. Roberts، arrested on November 15 north of London، will eventually spend nearly 48 years in prison.
• December 15 – Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book، the last animated feature under his personal supervision.
• 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 – Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas، narrated by Boris Karloff، premieres on the CBS network، beginning an annual Christmas tradition in the United States.
• December 19 – The Asian Development Bank begins operations.
• December 20 – U.K. Prime Minister Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rhodesian 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 24 – New York television station WPIX broadcasts The Yule Log for the first time; it becomes a Christmas tradition.
• December 25 – Marionette sci-fi series Thunderbirds airs its final episode on ITV in the United Kingdom with a Christmas special.
• 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.
• 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.
• Paramount Pictures Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf+Western Industries، Inc.
• 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 designs the programming language BCPL.
• The World Buddhist Sangha Council is convened by 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 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 Congo is thought to have first brought HIV to the Americas.

Births

January

Ivica Dačić

Christian Kern

Patrick Dempsey

Lena Philipsson

Rainn Wilson

Romário

• January 1 – Ivica Dačić، Serbian politician، Prime Minister of Serbia 2012–2014
• January 4 – Christian Kern، Austrian politician، 24th Chancellor of Austria
• January 6 – Sharon Cuneta، Filipino actress، host and singer
• January 7 – Corrie Sanders، South African boxer (ت. 2012)
• January 8
  • Igor Vyazmikin، Russian ice hockey player (ت. 2009)
  • Andrew Wood، American musician (ت. 1990)
• January 13 – Patrick Dempsey، American actor and race car driver
• January 14 – Dan Schneider، American television producer، screenwriter and actor
• January 15 – Rommel Fernández، Panamanian footballer (ت. 1993)
• January 17
  • Shabba Ranks، Jamaican singer
  • Jyoji Morikawa، Japanese author and illustrator
  • Nobuyuki Kojima، Korean footballer
• January 19
  • Floris Jan Bovelander، Dutch field-hockey player
  • Stefan Edberg، Swedish tennis player
  • 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 24 – Jimeoin، Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
• January 25 – Ju Ping، Chinese host and voice actress
• January 28
  • Andrea Berg، German singer
  • Seiji Mizushima، Japanese anime director
• January 29 – Romário، Brazilian footballer and politician
• January 30 – Hans Tutschku، German composer
• January 31 – Dexter Fletcher، English actor and director

February

Cindy Crawford

Rachel Dratch

Billy Zane

Téa Leoni

• February 1 – Michelle Akers، American footballer
• February 3 – Jimmy Thunder، Samoan boxer
• February 4
  • Piret Kalda، Estonian actress
  • Kyōko Koizumi، Japanese actress and singer
• February 5 – José María Olazábal، Spanish golfer
• February 6 – Rick Astley، British pop musician
• February 7 – Kristin Otto، German swimmer
• February 8 – Hristo Stoichkov، Bulgarian footballer
• February 9
  • Christoph Maria Herbst، German actor
  • Ellen van Langen، Dutch athlete
• February 10 – Daryl Johnston، American football player
• February 11 – Cristina Elena Grigoraș، Romanian artistic gymnast
• February 13 – Neal McDonough، American actor
• February 16 – Martin Perscheid، German cartoonist
• February 17 – Quorthon، Swedish singer، songwriter، musician and record producer (ت. 2004)
• February 20 – Cindy Crawford، American model and actress
• February 22
  • Yahya Ayyash، Palestinian bombmaker (ت. 1996)
  • Rachel Dratch، American actress and comedian
  • Brian Greig، Australian politician
• February 23
  • Michael Arata، American actor
  • Alexandre Borges، Brazilian actor
  • Didier Queloz، Swiss-born astronomer، Nobel Prize laureate
  • Paul Bakker، controversial professor in medieval and renaissance philosophy
• 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 (ت. 1992)
• February 28
  • Paulo Futre، Portuguese footballer
  • Ickey Woods، American football player

March

Zack Snyder

Michael Imperioli

• March 1
  • JD Cullum، American actor
  • Don Lemon، American journalist
  • 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 (ت. 2016)
  • Tone Lōc، African American R&B musician
• March 4
  • Daniela Amavia، American actress and international model
  • Ant Banks، African American rapper
  • Steve Bastoni، Australian actor
  • Kevin Johnson، American basketball player
• March 6 – Maurice Ashley، American chess grandmaster
• March 7
  • Jeff Feagles، American football kicker
  • Atsushi Sakurai، Japanese singer (Buck-Tick)
• March 9
  • Tony Lockett، Australian rules footballer
  • Maurizio Romano، Italian actor and voice actor (ت. 2003)
  • Alison Doody، Irish model and actress
• March 10
  • Edie Brickell، American singer
  • Mike Timlin، American baseball player
• March 12 – Luis Milla، Spanish footballer
• March 13 – Chico Science، Brazilian musician (ت. 1997)
• March 14
  • Elise Neal، American actress
• March 16 – Rodney Peete، African American football quarterback
• March 17 – Espen Hammer، Norwegian philosopher
• March 18
  • Anne Will، German television journalist
  • Jerry Cantrell، American guitarist and singer
• March 21 – Roy Niederhoffer، American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
• March 22 – Antonio Pinto، Portuguese long-distance runner
• March 25
  • Tom Glavine، American baseball player
  • Jeff Healey، Canadian guitarist (ت. 2008)
  • Anton Rogan، Northern Irish footballer
  • Remig Stumpf، German cyclist (ت. 2019)
• March 26 – Michael Imperioli، American actor
• March 28
  • Cheryl James، African American rapper (Salt-n-Pepa)
  • Captain Janks، American prank phone caller (The Howard Stern Show)
• March 29 – Krasimir Balakov، Bulgarian footballer

April

Chris Evans

Robin Wright

Samantha Fox

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Phil Tufnell

• April 1 – Chris Evans، British radio disc-jockey
• April 2
  • Teddy Sheringham، British footballer
  • Supla، Brazilian singer، songwriter، actor and presenter
• April 3
  • Michael Mittermeier، German comedian
  • Miina Tominaga، Japanese voice actress
• April 7 – Zvika Hadar، Israeli entertainer
• April 8
  • Charlotte Dawson، New Zealand–Australian television personality (ت. 2014)
  • Cynthia Nixon، American actress
  • Bobby Ologun، Nigerian television personality and martial artist
  • Robin Wright، American actress
• April 11 – Lisa Stansfield، British soul singer
• April 13 – Ali Boumnijel، Tunisian footballer
• April 14 – André Boisclair، Canadian politician
• April 17
  • Yevgeni Belosheikin، Russian ice hockey player (ت. 1999)
  • Vikram، Indian actor
• April 18 – Trine Hattestad، Norwegian athlete
• April 20 – David Chalmers، Australian philosopher
• April 22 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan، American actor
• April 25 – Man Arenas، Spanish comic creator
• April 26 – Natasha Trethewey، Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
• April 27
  • Siw Anita Andersen Norwegian actress
  • Yoshihiro Togashi، Japanese author and illustrator
• April 28 – Ali-Reza Pahlavi، titular prince of Iran (ت. 2011)
• April 29
  • Phil Tufnell، British cricketer
  • Vincent Ventresca، American actor

May

Charlie Schlatter

Stephen Baldwin

Darius Rucker

Greg Wise

Janet Jackson

H. Jon Benjamin

Helena Bonham Carter

Heston Blumenthal

• May 1 – Charlie Schlatter، American actor and voice actor
• May 3 – Firdous Bamji، Indian-American actor
• May 5 – 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
• May 10
  • Mikael Andersson، Swedish ice hockey player
  • Jonathan Edwards، British athlete
  • Anne Elvebakk، Norwegian biathlete
  • Genaro Hernández، Mexican-American boxer
  • Wade Dominguez، American actor، model، singer and dancer (ت. 1998)
• May 11 – Bill Ackman، American activist investor and hedge fund manager
• May 12
  • Stephen Baldwin، American actor
  • Bebel Gilberto، Brazilian popular singer
• May 13
  • Nereus Acosta، Filipino politician، academician and political scientist
  • Cheryl Dunye، Liberian-born film director، producer، screenwriter، editor and actress
  • Darius Rucker، African American country singer
  • Janko Vučinić، Montenegrin boxer and politician (ت. 2019)
• May 14
  • Raphael Saadiq، American singer-songwriter
  • Mike Inez، American musician (Alice In Chains)
  • Fab Morvan، French singer-songwriter، rapper، dancer and model (Milli Vanilli)
• May 15 – Greg Wise، English actor and producer
• May 16
  • Janet Jackson، African American R&B singer
  • Juan Manuel Funes، Guatemalan footballer and coach
  • Thurman Thomas، American football player
• May 17
  • Hill Harper، American actor
  • Qusay Hussein، Iraqi politician (ت. 2003)
• May 19 – Polly Walker، English actress
• May 20 – Joey Gamache، American boxer
• 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
  • Graeme Hick، English cricketer
• May 24
  • Eric Cantona، French footballer
  • Ricky Craven، American race car driver and sportscaster
  • Francisco Javier Cruz، Mexican football player
  • Russell Kun، Nauruan politician
• May 25
  • Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh، Iranian goalkeeper
  • Jeff Cross، American football player
  • Tatjana Patitz، German model
• May 26
  • Helena Bonham Carter، English actress
  • Zola Budd، South African athlete
• May 27
  • Heston Blumenthal، British chef
  • Carol Campbell، Afro-German actress، model and presenter
• May 28
  • Theo Bleckmann، German vocalist and composer
  • Larry Davis، American criminal (ت. 2008)
• May 30
  • Frank Goosen، German cabaret artist and novel author
  • Thomas Häßler، German football player

June

Julianna Margulies

Emmanuelle Seigner

J. J. Abrams

John Cusack

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama

Mike Tyson

• June 2 – Candace Gingrich، American LGBT rights activist
• June 3 – Wasim Akram، Pakistani cricketer
• June 4 – Cecilia Bartoli، Italian mezzo-soprano
• June 5 – Dwayne Hill، Canadian voice actor
• June 6
  • Faure Gnassingbé، President of Togo
  • Angela Cavagna، Italian singer
• June 7 – Tom McCarthy، American film director and actor
• June 8
  • Jens Kidman، Swedish musician
  • Julianna Margulies، American actress and producer
  • Doris Pearson، British musician
• June 10 – Laura Silverman، American actress and voice actress
• June 13 – Grigori Perelman، Russian mathematician
• June 14
  • Matt Freeman، American musician
  • Eduardo Waghorn، Chilean musician
  • Traylor Howard، American actress
• June 15
  • Bekim Berisha، Kosovar Albanian soldier (ت. 1998)
  • Roberto Carnevale، Italian musician
• June 16
  • Phil Vischer، American voice actor، puppeteer، writer، animator، creator of VeggieTales.
  • Jan Železný، Czech javelin thrower
• June 18 – Kurt Browning، Canadian figure skater
• June 19 – Samuel West، British actor
• June 21 – Rudi Bakhtiar، American journalist
• June 22
  • Michael Park، British rally co-driver (ت. 2005)
  • Emmanuelle Seigner، French actress
• June 23
  • Richie Jen، Taiwanese musician
  • Eric Thomas، Inventor of LISTSERV
• June 24 – Adrienne Shelly، American actress، film director and screenwriter (ت. 2006)
• June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo، Congolese basketball player
• June 26 – Dany Boon، French comedian and filmmaker
• June 27
  • Ko Jeong-Woon، South Korean footballer
  • 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

July

Sandra Lee

Brian Posehn

Pamela Adlon

Doug TenNapel

Tamsin Greig

Matthew Fox

Kristoff St. John

Enrique Peña Nieto

Richard Steven Horvitz

• July 1
  • Enrico Annoni، Italian footballer
  • Samir Rifai، Prime Minister of Jordan
• July 2 – Rigan Machado، 8th degree red and black belt from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
• July 3
  • Moisés Alou، American baseball player
  • Robin Burgener، Canadian programmer، inventor of 20Q
  • Sandra Lee، American television chef and author
  • František Štorm، Czech musician (Master's Hammer) and typographer
• July 5
  • Claudia Wells، American actress
  • Gianfranco Zola، Italian footballer
• July 6
  • Brian Posehn، American actor and comedian
  • Glenn Scarpelli، American child actor and singer
• July 7
  • Jim Gaffigan، American comedian، actor
  • Gundula Krause، German violinist
• July 8
  • Ralf Altmeyer، German virologist
  • Shadlog Bernicke، Nauruan politician
  • Suzanne Krull، American actress (ت. 2013)
• July 9
  • Jon Schmidt، American pianist
  • Pamela Adlon، American actress، voice actress، screenwriter، producer and director
• July 10
  • Gina Bellman، British actress
  • Doug TenNapel، American animator، cartoonist and comic book artist
• July 11
  • Debbe Dunning، American actress
  • Kentaro Miura، Japanese author and illustrator
  • Mick Molloy، Australian comedian
• July 13 – Gerald Levert، American singer-songwriter (ت. 2006)
• July 14 – Matthew Fox، American actor
• July 15
  • Irène Jacob، French-born actress
  • Kristoff St. John، American actor (ت. 2019)
• July 16
  • Scott Derrickson، American film director
  • Frankie Gan Joon Zin، Malaysian politician
  • Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy، Malaysian lawyer
• July 18
  • Lori Alan، American actress and voice actress
  • Dan O'Brien، American athlete
• July 19 – Nancy Carell، American actress
• July 20
  • Agot Isidro، Filipina recording personality and actress
  • Stone Gossard، American multi-instrumentalist
  • Enrique Peña Nieto، President of Mexico (2012-2018)، Governor of the State of Mexico (2005–2011)
• July 21
  • Sarah Waters، British novelist
  • Doug Chin، American attorney and politician
• July 22 – Tim Brown، American football player
• July 25
  • Daryl Halligan، New Zealand rugby league player and commentator
  • Wataru Takagi، Japanese voice actor
• July 26 – Angelo Di Livio، Italian footballer
• July 28
  • Miguel Ángel Nadal، Spanish footballer
  • Shikao Suga، Japanese singer
• July 29 – Richard Steven Horvitz، American actor and voice actor
• July 30
  • Milen Tsvetkov، Bulgarian journalist and TV host (ت. 2020)
  • Murilo Bustamante، Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Allan Langer، Australian rugby league player
  • Sean Patrick Maloney، American politician; U.S. Representative of New York since 2013
• July 31 – Dean Cain، American actor

أغسطس

James Gunn

Jimmy Wales

Halle Berry

Matt Maiellaro

Rodney Mullen

إنريكو لـِتـّا

Shirley Manson

• 2 أغسطس – Tim Wakefield، American baseball player
• August 3 – Brent Butt، Canadian comedian and TV producer
• August 4 – Kensuke Sasaki، Japanese professional wrestler
• August 5
  • James Gunn، American filmmaker
  • Jonathan Silverman، American actor
• August 7
  • Harith Iskander، Malaysian actor and comedian
  • Jimmy Wales، American co-founder of Wikipedia
• August 10
  • Charlie Dimmock، English TV gardening expert
  • Hossam Hassan، Egyptian footballer
  • André Sogliuzzo، American actor and voice actor
• August 11
  • Jonathan Adler، American potter، interior decorator and author
  • Juan María Solare، Argentine composer
• August 12
  • Les Ferdinand، English footballer
  • Michael Dobson، English-Canadian actor، voice actor and voice director
• August 14
  • Halle Berry، African American actress and fashion model
  • Freddy Rincón، Colombian footballer
  • Honami Suzuki، Japanese actress
• August 15 – Scott Brosius، American baseball player
• August 17
  • Daniela Castro، Mexican actress and singer
  • Matt Maiellaro، American voice actor and director
  • Rodney Mullen، American skateboarder
• August 19 – Lee Ann Womack، American musician
• August 20
  • Dimebag Darrell، American guitarist (ت. 2004)
  • إنريكو لـِتـّا، رئيس وزراء إيطاليا رقم 55.
  • Liu Chunyan، Chinese voice actress and host
• August 23 – Rik Smits، Dutch basketball player
• August 25
  • Michael Cohen، American attorney
  • Sandra Maischberger، German journalist، talk show host and author
• August 26
  • Jacques Brinkman، Dutch field hockey player
  • Shirley Manson، Scottish musician، frontwoman of Garbage
• August 27
  • Jeroen Duyster، Dutch rower
  • Juhan Parts، 15th Prime Minister of Estonia
• August 28 – Priya Dutt، Indian social worker and politician

September

Salma Hayek

Toby Jones

Adam Sandler

Princess Akishino of Japan

Nechirvan Barzani

Maria Canals-Barrera

• September 1
  • Tim Hardaway، American basketball player
  • Ken Levine، American video game designer
• September 2
  • Tuc Watkins، American actor
  • Salma Hayek، Mexican-American actress
• September 4 – Yanka Dyagileva، Russian singer (ت. 1991)
• September 6
  • Emil Boc، 61st Prime Minister of Romania
  • Eduardo Maruri، Ecuadorian businessman and politician
• September 7
  • 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 1991 winner
• September 9
  • Georg Hackl، German luger
  • Adam Sandler، American actor and comedian
• September 11 – Holly Glynn، American suicide، long-time unidentified decedent (ت. 1987)
• September 12
  • Darren E. Burrows، American actor (Ed Chigliak، Northern Exposure)
  • Steve Ells، American entrepreneur and founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Ben Folds، American musician
  • Princess Akishino of Japan
  • Malu Mader، Brazilian actress
• September 13 – Louis Mandylor، Greek-Australian actor
• September 16 – Sean Frye، American child actor
• September 18 – Richard Grenell، American diplomat، civil servant and media consultant
• September 19 – Soledad O'Brien، American television journalist and news anchor
• September 20
  • Nuno Bettencourt، Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter
  • Niki Caro، New Zealand director and screenwriter
• September 21
  • Nechirvan Barzani، President of Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Kerrin Lee-Gartner، Canadian skier and journalist
• September 22
  • Erdoğan Atalay، German actor
  • Moustafa Amar، Egyptian singer
  • Mike Richter، American ice hockey player
• September 24 – Michael O. Varhola، American author and publisher
• September 25 – Jason Flemyng، English actor
• September 28 – Maria Canals-Barrera، American actress
• September 29 – Ben Miles، English actor

October

David Cameron

Luke Perry

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Jon Favreau

Roman Abramovich

Zoran Milanovic

• October 1
  • Scott Innes، American voice actor and singer
  • George Weah، Liberian politician and football player
• October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i، Samoan-American professional wrestler (ت. 2000)
• October 3 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane، Israeli settler leader (ت. 2000)
• October 5
  • Sean M. Carroll، American theoretical physicist
  • Inessa Kravets، Ukrainian athlete
• October 6
  • Niall Quinn، Irish footballer
  • Jacqueline Obradors، American actress
• October 7 – Sherman Alexie، Native American author
• October 8
  • Art Barr، American professional wrestler (ت. 1994)
  • Aaron Callaghan، Irish football club executive
• October 9 – David Cameron، Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• October 10
  • Tony Adams، English footballer
  • Bai Ling، Chinese actress
  • Elana Meyer، South African athlete
• October 11 – Luke Perry، American actor (ت. 2019)
• October 15
  • Eric Benét، African American singer-songwriter
  • Jorge Campos، Mexican footballer and coach
• October 16 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn، American voice actress and director
• October 17 – Mark Gatiss، English actor، comedian، screenwriter، director، producer and novelist
• October 18
  • Dave Price، American journalist and weather forecaster
  • Sam Sorbo، American actress and author
  • Angela Visser، Dutch winner of Miss Universe 1989
• October 19 – Jon Favreau، American actor and director
• 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
• October 25 – Wendel Clark، Canadian hockey player
• October 27 – Matt Drudge، American conservative journalist
• October 28
  • Steve Atwater، American football player
  • Andy Richter، American actor، writer، comedian and late night talk show announcer
• October 30 – Zoran Milanović، Croatian politician، President of Croatia
• October 31
  • Adam Horovitz، American rapper
  • Koji Kanemoto، Japanese professional wrestler
  • Mike O'Malley، American actor and playwright

November

David Schwimmer

Vincent Cassel

Garcelle Beauvais

• November 1 – Jeremy Hunt، British politician
• November 2
  • Yoshinari Ogawa، Japanese professional wrestler
  • David Schwimmer، American actor
• November 3 – Joe Hachem، Lebanese-born Australian poker player
• November 8 – Gordon Ramsay، Scottish-born chef، restaurateur and television personality
• November 9 – Lori Lively، American actress
• November 10 – Vanessa Angel، English model and actress
• November 11
  • Benedicta Boccoli، Italian model and actress
  • Peaches، Canadian musician
• November 13 – Susanna Haapoja، Finnish politician (ت. 2009)
• November 14 – Curt Schilling، American baseball player
• November 15 – Rachel True، American actress
• November 16
  • Stephen Critchlow، English actor
  • Dean McDermott، Canadian-American actor
• November 17
  • Jeff Buckley، American singer-songwriter (ت. 1997)
  • Daisy Fuentes، Cuban-born American model and television personality
  • Sophie Marceau، French actress
• November 19
  • Gail Devers، American retired track and field athlete
  • Jason Scott Lee، American actor and martial artist
• November 21 – Troy Aikman، American sports commentator، previously pro football player
• November 22 – Michael K. Williams، American actor
• November 23
  • Vincent Cassel، French actor
  • Michelle Gomez، Scottish actress
• November 24 – Juan Pablo Gamboa، Colombian actor
• November 25
  • Tim Armstrong، American singer-songwriter
  • Billy Burke، American actor
• November 26 – Garcelle Beauvais، Haitian-American actress، singer and fashion model
• November 28
  • Martin Sherman، American actor
  • Narumi Yasuda، Japanese actress
• November 29 – John Bradshaw Layfield، American professional wrestler

December

Fred Armisen

Patricia Kaas

Kiefer Sutherland

Diedrich Bader

• December 1
  • Katherine LaNasa، American actress
  • Larry Walker، Canadian Major League Baseball player
• December 3 – Adam Berry، American composer
• December 4
  • Fred Armisen، American actor، comedian and musician
  • Carey Means، American actor and voice artist
• 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
  • Bushwick Bill، Jamaican-American rapper (ت. 2019)
  • Matthew Labyorteaux، American actor
  • Sinéad O'Connor، Irish pop singer
  • Ralph Santolla، Italian-American metal guitarist (ت. 2018)
• December 9
  • Tim Bull، Australian politician
  • Michael Foster، American musician، drummer
• December 10
  • Montserrat Gil Torné، Andorran politician
  • Kirsten Gillibrand، American politician; United States Senator (D-NY)
  • Dave Harold، English professional snooker player
  • Dana Murzyn، Canadian hockey player
  • Julio Rodas، Guatemalan soccer player
  • Mateo Romero، Native American painter
  • Gideon Sa'ar، Israeli politician
  • Kadyrbek Sarbayev، foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan
  • Martin Taylor، English soccer goalkeeper and coach
  • Natee Thongsookkaew، Thailand footballer
• December 12
  • Royce Gracie، Brazilian martial artist
  • Greg Long، American Christian musician
  • Último Dragón، Japanese professional wrestler
  • Lydia Zimmermann، Spanish filmmaker
  • Pops Fernandez، Filipina singer
• December 13
  • Didier van der Hove، Belgian-Colombian actor
  • Don Roff، American writer and filmmaker
• December 14
  • Anthony Mason، American basketball player (ت. 2015)
  • Sanjay Bedia
  • Bill Ranford، Canadian hockey player
  • Helle Thorning-Schmidt، Danish Prime Minister
• December 15 – Katja von Garnier، German film director
• December 16 – Dennis Wise، English footballer
• 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
• December 22
  • Din Beramboi، Malaysian comedian، actor and radio DJ (ت. 2010)
  • Dmitry Bilozerchev، Soviet gymnast
• December 23 – Cláudia Raia، Brazilian actress، dancer and singer
• December 24 – Diedrich Bader، American actor and voice artist
• December 26
  • Rickey Dixon، American football player (ت. 2020)
  • Jay Yuenger، American musician and producer
• December 27
  • Jerry Tuite، American professional wrestler (ت. 2003)
  • Bill Goldberg، American professional wrestler
• December 28 – Kaliopi، Macedonian singer-songwriter
• December 30
  • Eric Kot، Hong Kong singer and actor
  • Bennett Miller، American film director
• December 31
  • Didi Kempot، Indonesian singer-songwriter (ت. 2020)
  • Maddie Taylor، American voice actress and comedian

Date unknown

• Guli Francis-Dehqani، Iranian-born Anglican diocesan bishop
• Julian Hooper، New Zealand artist
• Charbel Iskandar، Lebanese actor
• Kivi Larmola، Finnish artist

وفيات

يناير

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات يناير 1966

Vincent Auriol

Georges Theunis

Hannes Kolehmainen

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

• 1 يناير – Vincent Auriol، سياسي فرنسي، ورئيس فرنسا السادس عشر (و. 1884)
• January 3
  • Sammy Younge Jr.، American civil rights activist (و. 1944)
  • Marguerite Higgins، American journalist (و. 1920)
  • Rex Lease، American actor (و. 1903)
• January 4 – Georges Theunis، 24th Prime Minister of Belgium (و. 1873)
• January 10 – Ignacy Oziewicz، Polish general (و. 1887)
• January 11
  • Alberto Giacometti، Swiss sculptor (و. 1901)
  • Hannes Kolehmainen، Finnish Olympic athlete (و. 1889)
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri، Indian activist، 2nd Prime Minister of India (و. 1904)
• January 14
  • Sergei Korolev، Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (و. 1907)
  • Bill Carr، American Olympic athlete (و. 1909)
• January 15
  • Samuel Akintola، Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (assassinated) (و. 1910)
  • Abubakar Tafawa Balewa، Nigerian politician، 1st Prime Minister of Nigeria (assassinated) (و. 1912)
  • Ahmadu Bello، Nigerian premier of the Northern region (assassinated) (و. 1910)
• January 16 – Courtney Hodges، American army general (و. 1887)
• January 17 – Vincent J. Donehue، American stage director (و. 1917)
• January 18 – Kathleen Norris، American writer (و. 1880)
• January 22 – Herbert Marshall، English actor (و. 1890)
• January 25 – Saul Adler، Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (و. 1895)
• January 31
  • Elizabeth Patterson، American actress (و. 1875)
  • Arthur Percival، British general (b.1887)

فبراير

المقالة الرئيسية: Deaths in February 1966

Buster Keaton

Louisa Martindale

Frank Merrill

• February 1
  • Hedda Hopper، American actress and gossip columnist (و. 1885)
  • Buster Keaton، American actor and film director (و. 1895)
  • Joseph R. Knowland، American politician and newspaper publisher (و. 1873)
• February 3 – June Walker، American actress (و. 1900)
• February 5 – Louisa Martindale، British physician، writer، magistrate and prison commissioner (و. 1872)
• February 6 – Narcisa de Leon، Filipino film mogul (و. 1877)
• February 9 – Sophie Tucker، American singer (و. 1884)
• February 10
  • J. F. C. Fuller، British general and military strategist (و. 1878)
  • Billy Rose، American composer and band leader (و. 1899)
• February 12
  • Frank Merrill، American actor (و. 1893)
  • Wilhelm Röpke، German economist (و. 1899)
• February 15
  • Gerard Ciołek، Polish architect and historian (و. 1909)
  • Camilo Torres Restrepo، Colombian socialist and Roman Catholic priest (و. 1929)
• February 17 – Hans Hofmann، German-American painter (و. 1880)
• February 18 – Robert Rossen، American film director (و. 1908)
• February 20 – Chester W. Nimitz، American Navy admiral (و. 1885)
• February 25 – Victor Kravchenko، Soviet writer (و. 1905)
• February 26 – Gino Severini، Italian painter (و. 1883)
• February 28
  • Charles Bassett، American astronaut (و. 1931)
  • Jonathan Hale، American actor (و. 1891)
  • Elliot See، American astronaut (و. 1927)

March

المقالة الرئيسية: Deaths in March 1966

Frits Zernike

Néstor Guillén

• March 1
  • Fritz Houtermans، German physicist (و. 1903)
  • William R. Munroe، American admiral (و. 1886)
  • Donald Stewart، American actor (و. 1910)
• March 3
  • Joseph Fields، American playwright (و. 1895)
  • William Frawley، American actor (I Love Lucy) (و. 1887)
  • Maxfield Parrish، American artist (و. 1870)
  • Alice Pearce، American actress (و. 1917)
• March 5 – Anna Akhmatova، Russian poet (و. 1889)
• March 6 – Michitaro Totsuka، Japanese admiral (و. 1890)
• March 7 – Donald B. Beary، American admiral (و. 1888)
• March 8
  • William Astor، 3rd Viscount Astor، British politician (و. 1907)
  • Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar، Egyptian painter (و. 1925)
• March 10
  • Frank O'Connor، Irish writer (و. 1903)
  • Frits Zernike، Dutch physicist، Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1888)
• March 12 – Néstor Guillén ، Bolivian politician، 40th President of Bolivia (و. 1890)
• March 20
  • Laurence Abrams، English professional footballer (و. 1889)
  • Johnny Morrison، American professional baseball player (و. 1895)
• March 27 – Helen Menken، American actress (و. 1901)
• March 29 – Stylianos Gonatas، former Prime Minister of Greece (و. 1876)
• March 30 – Erwin Piscator، German theater director (و. 1893)

أبريل

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات أبريل 1966

Evelyn Waugh

Abdul Salam Arif

• April 1 – Brian O'Nolan، Irish humorist (و. 1911)
• April 2 – C. S. Forester، English author (و. 1899)
• April 3 – Battista Farina، Italian car designer (و. 1893)
• April 6 – Julia Faye، American actress (و. 1893)
• April 10 – Evelyn Waugh، English author (و. 1903)
• April 11 - William H. Pitsenbarger، United States Air Force Medal of Honour recipient (و. 1944)
• April 13
  • Carlo Carrà، Italian painter (و. 1881)
  • Georges Duhamel، French author (و. 1884)
  • Abdul Salam Arif، Iraqi military officer and statesman، 2nd President of Iraq (و. 1921)
• April 17 – Mario Serandrei، Italian editor and screenwriter (و. 1907)
• April 19 – Javier Solís، Mexican singer (و. 1931)
• April 20 – Prince Frederick of Prussia (و. 1911)
• April 21 – Sepp Dietrich، Nazi German military leader and SS commander (و. 1892)
• April 23 – George Ohsawa، Japanese dietist، founder of Macrobiotics (و. 1893)
• April 24 – Tino Pattiera، Yugoslav-born Italian tenor (و. 1890)
• April 29 – Eugene O'Brien، American actor (و. 1880)

مايو

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات مايو 1966

Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez

Venceslau Brás

• May 4 – Amédée Ozenfant، French painter (و. 1886)
• May 8 – Erich Pommer، German film producer (و. 1889)
• May 11 – Alfred Wintle، British army officer and eccentric (و. 1897)
• May 14 – Ludwig Meidner، German painter (و. 1884)
• May 15
  • Venceslau Brás، 9th President of Brazil، leader of the World War II (و. 1868)
  • Maximiliano Hernández Martínez، 30th President of El Salvador (assassinated) (و. 1882)
  • Titien Sumarni، Indonesian actress (و. 1932)
• May 20 – Carlos Arruza، Mexican bullfighter (و. 1920)
• May 21
  • Lady Dorothy Macmillan، Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (و. 1900)
  • Pat O'Malley، American actor (و. 1890)
• May 22 – Tom Goddard، English cricketer (و. 1900)
• May 23 – Demchugdongrub، Mongolian politician (و. 1902)
• May 24 – Jim Barnes، English golf champion (و. 1886)
• May 25 – Vernon Sturdee، Australian general (و. 1890)
• May 26 – Don Castle، American actor (و. 1917)
• May 29 – James Woolf، British film producer (و. 1919)

يونيو

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات يونيو 1966

Ed Wynn

• June 1 – Papa Jack Laine، American jazz musician (و. 1873)
• June 3 – Nicholas Straussler، Hungarian engineer (و. 1891)
• June 6 – Ethel Clayton، American actress (و. 1882)
• June 7 – Jean Arp، Alsatian sculptor، painter and poet (و. 1887)
• June 8 – Anton Melik، Slovenian geographer (و. 1890)
• June 11 – Wallace Ford، English-born American actor (و. 1898)
• June 12 – Hermann Scherchen، Austrian conductor (و. 1891)
• June 15 – Sankichi Takahashi، Japanese admiral (و. 1882)
• June 19 – Ed Wynn، American actor and comedian (و. 1886)
• June 20 – Georges Lemaître، Belgian priest and astrophysicist (و. 1894)
• June 30
  • Margery Allingham، British detective fiction writer (و. 1904)
  • Giuseppe Farina، Italian race car driver (و. 1906)

يوليو

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات يوليو 1966

Montgomery Clift

Frank O'Hara

• July 2
  • Jan Brzechwa، Polish poet (و. 1900)
  • John the Wonderworker، Chinese Orthodox bishop، American archbishop and saint (و. 1896)
• July 3 – Deems Taylor، American composer (و. 1885)
• July 5 – George de Hevesy، Hungarian chemist، Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1885)
• July 7 – Carmelita Geraghty، American actress (و. 1901)
• July 9 – Venerable Marija Petković، Yugoslav Roman Catholic foundress and Servant of God (و. 1892)
• July 11 – Delmore Schwartz، American poet (و. 1913)
• July 12 – D. T. Suzuki، Japanese scholar and essayist (و. 1870)
• July 14 – Julie Manet، French painter (و. 1878)
• July 18 – Bobby Fuller، American rock and roll musician (و. 1942)
• July 21
  • Francesco Paolo Cantelli، Italian mathematician (و. 1875)
  • Philipp Frank، Austrian physicist and mathematician (و. 1884)
• July 23
  • Montgomery Clift، American actor (و. 1920)
  • Douglass Montgomery، American actor (و. 1907)
• July 25 – Frank O'Hara، American poet (و. 1926)
• July 31
  • Alexander von Falkenhausen، German general and military advisor، 20 July Plotter (و. 1878)
  • Bud Powell، American jazz pianist (و. 1924)

أغسطس

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات أغسطس 1966

Lenny Bruce

• August 1 – Charles Whitman، American mass murderer (و. 1941)
• August 3 – Lenny Bruce، American comedian (و. 1925)
• August 6 – Cordwainer Smith، American author (و. 1913)
• August 12 – Artur Alliksaar، Estonian poet (و. 1923)
• August 15
  • Jan Kiepura، Polish tenor and actor (و. 1902)
  • Seena Owen، American actress (و. 1894)
• August 17 – Ken Miles، British sports car racing engineer and driver (و. 1918)
• August 19 – Fritz Bleyl، German painter (و. 1880)
• August 23 – Francis X. Bushman، American actor (و. 1883)
• August 24
  • Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski، Polish general and statesman، 33rd Prime Minister of Poland (و. 1895)
  • Vicente Mejía Colindres، 29th President of Honduras (و. 1878)
• August 26 – Art Baker، American actor (و. 1898)

سبتمبر

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات سبتمبر 1966

Hendrik Verwoerd

• September 3 – Fu Lei، Chinese translator (و. 1908)
• September 6
  • Margaret Sanger، American birth control advocate (و. 1879)
  • Hendrik Verwoerd، 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (و. 1901)
• September 14
  • Gertrude Berg، American actress (و. 1899)
  • Cemal Gürsel، Turkish general and statesman، 10th Prime Minister of Turkey and 4th President of Turkey (و. 1895)
• September 17 – Fritz Wunderlich، German tenor (و. 1930)
• September 19 – Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov، Soviet scientist and general (و. 1874)
• September 21 – Paul Reynaud، French lawyer and politician، 77th Prime Minister of France (و. 1878)
• September 26 – Helen Kane، American singer (و. 1904)
• September 28
  • André Breton، French poet and writer (و. 1896)
  • Eric Fleming، American actor (و. 1925)

October

المقالة الرئيسية: Deaths in October 1966

Elizabeth Arden

• October 7 – Johnny Kidd، English singer (و. 1935)
• October 10
  • Charlotte Cooper، English tennis champion (و. 1870)
  • Wilfrid Lawson، English actor (و. 1900)
• October 13 – Clifton Webb، American actor، dancer and singer (و. 1889)
• October 16 – George O'Hara، American actor (و. 1899)
• October 17 – Cléo de Mérode، French dancer (و. 1875)
• October 18 – Elizabeth Arden، Canadian-born American beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (و. 1878)
• October 23 – Claire McDowell، American silent screen actress (و. 1877)
• October 24 – Hans Dreier، German art director (و. 1885)
• October 26 – Alma Cogan، English singer (و. 1932)
• October 28 – Robert Charpentier، French Olympic cyclist (و. 1916)

نوفمبر

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات نوفمبر 1966

Sean T. O'Kelly

• November 2
  • Peter Debye، Dutch chemist، Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1884)
  • Mississippi John Hurt، African American singer and guitarist (و. 1893)
• November 4 – Dietrich von Choltitz، Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (و. 1894)
• November 8 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist، developer of first reliable pregnancy test (و. 1891)
• November 9 – Jisaburō Ozawa، Japanese admiral (و. 1886)
• November 10 – Evelyn Sears، American tennis player (و. 1875)
• November 13 – Esna Boyd، Australian tennis player (و. 1899)
• November 14 – Steingrímur Steinþórsson، 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (و. 1893)
• November 21 – Władysław Bortnowski، Polish historian and military commander (و. 1891)
• November 23 – Seán T. O'Kelly، 2nd President of Ireland (و. 1882)
• November 26 – Siegfried Kracauer، German writer، sociologist and critic (و. 1889)
• November 28 – Boris Podolsky، Russian-American physicist (و. 1896)

ديسمبر

المقالة الرئيسية: وفيات ديسمبر 1966

والت ديزني

• December 2 – Luitzen Brouwer، Dutch mathematician and philosopher (و. 1881)
• December 6 – Juan Natalicio González، Paraguayan poet، 37th President of Paraguay (و. 1897)
• December 14
  • Verna Felton، American actress (و. 1890)
  • Richard Whorf، American actor (و. 1906)
• December 15 – Walt Disney، American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (و. 1901)
• December 22
  • Harry Beaumont، American film director (و. 1888)
  • Lucy Burns، American women's rights campaigner (و. 1879)
  • Robert Keith، American actor (و. 1898)
• December 26
  • Herbert Gille، SS German general (و. 1897)
  • Husayn Al-Khalidi، Jordanian statesman، 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (و. 1895)
• December 27 – Guillermo Stábile، Argentine football player and manager (و. 1905)
• December 30 – Christian Herter، United States Secretary of State (و. 1895)

جوائز نوبل

• Physics – Alfred Kastler
• Chemistry – Robert S. Mulliken
• Physiology or Medicine – Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins
• Literature – Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs
• Peace – not awarded