1966 deaths

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

Russian poet (1889–1966)

American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)

Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)

Dutch physicist (1888–1966)

4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)

Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)

British writer and journalist (1903–1966)

American actor (1920–1966)

United States Navy fleet admiral (1885–1966)

South Korean politician (1899-1966)

Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)

16th President of the French Republic (1884–1966)

American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)

Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)

Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)

Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)

Polish writer (1909–1966)

Italian racecar driver (1906-1966)

French writer (1884–1966)

Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)

Chinese writer, novelist and playwright (1899-1966)

Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966

Iraqi politician (1921-1966)

Finnish artist and sculptor (1894–1966)

Argentine football player and manager

French politician and lawyer (1878-1966)

President of Brazil (1868-1966)

American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)

German general (1894-1966)

German Military Officer and Waffen-SS general and a convicted Nazi Military war criminal (1892-1966)

Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)

Indian politician (1883-1966)

Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)

Polish military leader (1895-1966)

American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)

Swedish medical physicist, professor (1896–1966)

Italian painter (1881-1966)

German SS commander ; affiant in Pohl Trial (NMT 4)

American actor, singer, dancer (1889–1966)

Finnish long-distance runner

Irish writer (1911-1966)

Nigerian politician (1912-1966)

Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)

Soviet politician (1873-1966)

Italian writer and novelist (1908–1966)

Italian painter (1883–1966)

German theatre director (1893–1966)

Austrian writer (1896-1966)

second President of Ireland (1882-1966)

Nigerian military leader (1924-1966)

English tennis player

American jazz pianist and composer (1924–1966)

Japanese officer and general (1877–1966)

Soviet actor (1903-1966)

American politician (1895-1966)

Estonian weightlifter and coach (1895–1966)