Deaths in August 1966
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1966.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 1966
1
- Hank Gowdy, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- Robey Leibbrandt, South African boxer, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics, and convicted traitor for acts during World War II (b. 1913)
- Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
- Jeremiah Mahoney, Australian and New Zealand cricketer (b. 1880)
2
- Rudolf Antonín Dvorský, Czech bandleader (b. 1899)
- Jacques Fouques-Duparc, French diplomat (b. 1897)
3
- Earl Blackburn, American baseball player (b. 1892)
- Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
- John Cockle, English-born Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1908)
- Caroline Ganley, British politician, MP (b. 1879)
- Syd James, Australian rules footballer (b. 1895)
- Jackson Keefer, American football player (b. 1900)
- Tristan Klingsor, French poet and musician (b. 1874)
4
- Betty Arlen, American actress (b. 1909)
- Pug Cavet, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- Howard Jackson, American composer (b. 1900)
- Régis Jolivet, French philosopher (b. 1891)
- William Kovach, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1909)
5
- Bian Zhongyun, Chinese educator, first victim of the Cultural Revolution (b. 1916)
- John Cairney, New Zealand anatomist (b. 1898)
- Nobby Clark, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1897)
- Austin Diamond, English-born Australian cricketer (b. 1874)
- Rufus Goldney, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly (b. 1883)
- Richard Hingston, British naturalist (b. 1887)
- Joseph R. Knowland, American politician, US Representative from California (b. 1873)
6
- Edmond L. DePatie, American film industry executive (b. 1900)
- Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913)
7
- Samuel J. Battle, American police officer, first African-American police officer in New York City (b. 1883)
- George Graham, Irish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1902)
8
- Herman Bartlett, Australian rules footballer (b. 1892)
- Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist, multiple medalist at the 1904 Olympic games (b. 1882)
- Richmond P. Hobson, Jr., American-Canadian writer (b. 1907)
- George Ludlow Lee Sr., American businessman (b. 1901)
- Ed "Strangler" Lewis, professional wrestler (b. 1891)
- Jack Lynch, Australian rugby player (b. 1910)
9
- Axel Alfredsson, Swedish footballer, Olympic competitor (1924) (b. 1902)
- Lee Bowers, American witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1925)
- Henri Fescourt, French film director (b. 1880)
- Alexander Gitovich, Soviet poet and translator (b. 1909)
- William Woodbury Hicks, American philatelist (b. 1896)
- Giorgi Leonidze, Georgian writer (b. 1899)
10
- J. C. Bloem, Dutch poet and writer (b. 1887)
- Arthur Creber, British cricketer (b. 1909)
- Chuck Dressen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1894)
- James French, American murderer (b. c. 1936)
- Maj. Alfred Cecil Herring, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1888)
- Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1906)
11
- Ettore Bellotto, Italian gymnast, member of the gold medal-winning team at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1895)
12
- Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet (b. 1923)
- J. H. Conradie, South African politician and judge, Speaker of the National Assembly (b. 1897)
- Thomas Johnson, English cyclist, medalist at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
13
- Frank Chester, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1901)
- Laura Gardin Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1889)
- Poul Hansen, Danish politician, Defence Minister of Denmark and Danish Minister of Finance (b. 1913)
14
- Cora Sutton Castle, American educator (b. 1880)
- Raymond Duncan, American writer and philosopher (b. 1874)
- Alfred Kreymborg, American writer (b. 1883)
15
- George Burns, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- Chris Cameron, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
- Jules Dubois, American reporter (b. 1910)
- Rafael Frontaura, Chilean actor (b. 1896)
- Jan Kiepura, Polish-born American tenor and actor (b. 1902)
- Seena Owen, American actress (b. 1894)
16
- Carl Klæth, Norwegian gymnast, silver medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
17
- Bill Allington, American minor league baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
- Jean-Yves Bigras, Canadian film director and editor (b. 1919)
- Rolf Billberg, Swedish alto saxophone player (b. 1930)
- Michael Garrison, American television producer (The Wild Wild West) (b. 1922)
- Moses Hadas, American classical scholar (b. 1900)
- Kong Duen-yee, Hong Kong actor (b. 1923)
- André Lefebvre de La Boulaye, French diplomat, ambassador to the United States (b. 1876)
- Frank Livingstone, New Zealand lawn bowls player (b. 1886)
- Ken Miles, British sports car racing engineer and driver (b. 1918)
18
- D. C. Jarvis, American physician (b. 1881)
19
- Fritz Bleyl, German painter (b. 1880)
- Carlo Capra, Italian footballer (b. 1889)
- Roy Crick, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1904)
- Jeanne de Casalis, Basutoland-born British actress (b. 1897)
- Tajar Zavalani, Albanian historian and journalist (b. 1903)
20
- Arthur Colvin, Australian doctor and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1884)
- Austin Diamond, American politician (b. 1874)
- Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven, American-born British nobleman (b. 1896)
- Fulton Lewis Jr., American broadcaster (b. 1903)
21
- Terry Beddard, British fencer; Olympic competitor (1936 and 1948) (b. 1901)
- Jack Bisset, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
- Martin Dooling, American soccer player, bronze medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
- Constance D'Arcy Mackay, American playwright (b. 1887)
- Kuttur Mallappa, Indian politician, home minister of Coorg State
22
- Gunnar Aaby, Danish soccer player (b. 1895)
- Benjamin C. Dawkins, Sr., American judge (b. 1881)
- Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Soviet linguist (b. 1934)
- Wade H. Kitchens, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arkansas (b. 1878)
- Erwin Komenda, Austrian automobile designer (b. 1904)
23
- Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
- Guillermo Gorostiza, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
- Mere Haana Hall, New Zealand educator (b. c. 1881)
- John C. Knox, American federal judge (b. 1881)
24
- Malfred Bergseth, Norwegian trade unionist (b. 1895)
- Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Polish general and statesman (b. 1895)
- Wheezer Dell, American baseball player (b. 1886)
- Sam Faubus, American politician (b. 1887)
- Jan van der Laan, Dutch architect (b. 1896)
- Lao She, Chinese writer (b. 1899)
25
- James Bagshaw, English football player (Derby County) (b. 1885)
- Lance Comfort, English film director (b. 1908)
- Sir John Dwyer, Australian jurist, Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia (b. 1879)
26
- Nils Asheim, Norwegian Liberal Party politician (b. 1895)
- Art Baker, American actor (b. 1898)
- Edmund Blampied, Jersey artist (b. 1886)
- Norm Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1904)
- Robert Dehler, Canadian-born Bermudan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1889)
- Hermann Geiger, Swiss pilot (b. 1914)
- Wolfgang Langhoff, German actor and director (b. 1901)
- Joanna MacKinnon, Scottish-born New Zealand nurse (b. 1878)
- Alexander Hugh Macmillan, Canadian religious leader (b. 1877)
27
- Mads Clausen, Danish industrialist (b. 1905)
- John Cournos, Russian-born American and British writer (b. 1881)
28
- Waldemar Carlsen, Norwegian writer, newspaper editor, and politician (b. 1880)
- Andrew Edmiston, Jr., American politician, United States Representative from West Virginia (b. 1892)
- Rudolf Herrnstadt, East German politician and journalist (b. 1903)
29
- Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German princess (b. 1890)
- Emil Burri, German playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
- Fritz Max Cahén, German anti-Nazi (b. 1891)
- Elmer Talmadge Clark, American writer and church executive (b. 1886)
- Al DeVormer, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- Joseph Egger, Austrian actor (b. 1889)
- Romy Gosz, American Polka musician (b. 1910)
30
- John Campbell, Australian rugby player (b. 1889)
- Martin W. Clement, American railroad executive (b. 1881)
- Elise Hambro, Norwegian educator (b. 1881)
- Gus Kuhn, British motorcyclist (b. 1898)
31
- Joyce Allan, Australian conchologist (b. 1896)
- Alexis Caron, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1899)
- Denzil Dean Harber, British ornithologist (b. 1909)
- Jaroslav Jirkovský, Czechoslovak ice hockey player, competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics (b. 1891)
- Armand Machabey, French musicologist (b. 1886)
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