1966 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
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Events[]
January[]
- January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
- January 2 – A strike of public transportation workers in New York City begins. (It would end January 13).
- January 3 – The first Acid Test is conducted at the Fillmore, San Jose.
- January 4
- A military coup occurs in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso).
- The prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow.
- A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, France, kills 18 and injures 84.
- January 10
- January 11
- 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 – A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government.
- January 16 – Chicago Bulls, a member of National Basketball Association's club, officially founded.[1]
- January 17
- January 18
- January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in January 24.
- January 20 – 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
- 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
- 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.
February[]
March[]
- March – The DKW automobile ceases production in Germany.[3]
- March 1
- March 2 – Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Guinea and is granted asylum.
- March 4
- March 5
- March 7 – Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.
- March 8
- March 9 – Ronnie, one of the Kray twins, shoots George Cornell (an associate of rivals The Richardson Gang) dead at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, east London, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.
- March 10
- March 11
- 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 established the Vans shoe company in California.
- March 17
- 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 Jules Rimet 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
- March 29 – The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.
- March 31
April[]
May[]
June[]
July[]
- July – British gangster Charlie Richardson is arrested by police and sentenced to 25 years in prison in the following year for his part in the Torture Gang assaults.
- July 1 – Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
- July 3
- July 4
- July 6 – Malawi becomes a republic.
- July 7 – A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
- July 8 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.
- July 11
- July 12
- 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, 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 Plaid Cymru 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
- July 22 – Following the death of engineer Hsu Tsu-tsai in The Hague, the Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata, but tells him not to leave the country before his fellow 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 was shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Hanoi, in the first loss of a US aircraft to a Vietnamese SAM in the Vietnam War.[7]
- July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords, 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
- July 30 – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
August[]
- August 1
- August 2 – The Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft.
- August 5
- August 6
- 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 13
- August 15
- 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 – 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 Mw Varto earthquake affected eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 2,394–3,000 and injuring 1,420–1,500.
- August 21 – Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt, for anti-Nasser agitation.
- August 22
- August 24 – The Doors record their self-titled debut LP.
- August 26
- August 29 – The Beatles end their US 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 (later Djibouti in 1977).
September[]
October[]
November[]
- November 1 – The National Football League awards the league's sixteenth franchise to the city of New Orleans. The team would 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 residence in the United States.
- November 4 – In Italy, a flood of the Arno River 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
- November 9 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery, London.
- 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
- November 14 – Jack L. Warner sells Warner Bros. to Seven Arts Productions, which eventually becomes Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- November 15
- November 16 – American doctor Sam Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1954.
- November 17
- November 21 – In Togo, the army crushes an attempted coup.
- November 24
- November 26
- November 27 – The Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72–41 in the highest scoring game in NFL history.
- November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball ('The Party of the Century') is held in New York City.
- November 29 – The SS Daniel J. Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, killing 28 of its 29 crewmen.
- November 30 – Barbados achieves independence.
December[]
- December 1
- December 2 – U Thant agrees to serve a second term as U.N. Secretary General.
- December 3 – Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in Macau; a curfew is declared the next day.
- December 5 – 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 – Bình Hòa massacre: Vietnam War.
- December 7
- December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferry SS Heraklion sinks in rough seas, in the Aegean Sea near Crete, leaving 217 dead.
- December 15 – Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book, the last animated feature under his personal supervision.
- December 16
- December 17 – South Africa does not join the trade embargo against Rhodesia.
- December 18 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS, beginning an annual Christmas tradition in the USA.
- December 19 – The Asian Development Bank begins operations.
- December 20 – Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rhodesian government, and announces that he will agree to independence only after the founding of a Black majority government.
- December 22 – Prime Minister Ian Smith declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
- December 24 – New York television station WPIX broadcasts its Christmas tradition, "The Yule Log" for the first time.
- December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and later chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, from 1989 to 2002.
- December 31
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.
- The Surrealist Movement in the United States is founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont.
- 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.[9]
- Chevrolet Camaro is introduced.
- A Japanese car Toyota Corolla is introduced since late November 1966.
Births[]
January[]
- January 1
- January 4
- January 5
- January 6 – Sharon Cuneta, Filipino actress, host and singer
- January 7 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (d. 1999)
- January 8
- January 13 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
- January 14 – Dan Schneider, American actor and producer
- January 17
- January 19
- January 20 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
- January 22 – Jegath Gaspar Raj, Tamil Maiyam Founder
- January 24 – Jimeoin, Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
- January 28
- January 29 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
- January 30
- January 31 – Gordon Hill, British internet celebrity and meme known as The Wealdstone Raider[importance?]
February[]
- February 1 – Michelle Akers, American footballer
- February 3 – Jimmy Thunder, Samoan boxer
- February 4
- February 5 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
- February 6 – Rick Astley, British pop musician
- February 7 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
- February 8
- February 9
- February 10 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
- February 11 – Cristina Elena Grigoras, Romanian artistic gymnast
- February 13 – Neal McDonough, American actor
- February 16 – Martin Perscheid, German cartoonist
- February 17 – Luc Robitaille, Canadian hockey player
- February 18 – Richard A. Collins, British scientist and author
- February 20 – Cindy Crawford, American model and actress
- February 22
- February 23 – Michael Arata, American actor
- February 24 – Billy Zane, American actor
- February 25
- February 26
- February 27 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (d. 1992)
- February 28
March[]
- March 1
- Don Lemon, American journalist
- Zack Snyder, American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
- March 2
- March 3
- March 4
- March 5
- March 6 – Maurice Ashley, American chess grandmaster
- March 7
- March 9 – Tony Lockett, Australian rules footballer
- March 10
- March 13 – Chico Science, Brazilian musician (d. 1997)
- March 14 – Elise Neal, American actress
- March 16 – Rodney Peete, African-American football quarterback
- March 17 – Espen Hammer, Norwegian philosopher
- March 18
- March 19 – Nigel Clough, English footballer
- March 21 – Roy Niederhoffer, American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
- March 22 – Antonio Pinto, Portuguese long-distance runner
- March 25
- March 26 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
- March 28 – Cheryl James, African-American rapper (Salt-n-Pepa)
- March 29 – Krasimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer
April[]
- April 1 – Chris Evans, British radio disc-jockey
- April 2
- April 3
- April 4
- April 8
- April 9 – John Hammond, British weather forecaster
- April 11 – Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer
- April 13 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
- April 14
- April 15
- April 18 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
- April 19
- El Samurai, Japanese professional wrestler
- Oliver Welke, German television presenter, actor, comedian and sports journalist
- April 20 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
- April 22
- April 25
- April 26 – Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
- April 27
- April 28
- April 29 – Phil Tufnell, British cricketer
May[]
- 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
- May 7
- May 8
- May 10
- May 11 – Bill Ackman, American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist
- May 12
- May 13
- Nereus Acosta, Filipino politician, academician, and political scientist
- Cheryl Dunye, Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, or and actress
- Alison Goldfrapp, English musician, Goldfrapp.
- Darius Rucker, African-American country singer
- May 14 – Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter
- May 15 – Greg Wise, English actor and producer
- May 16
- May 17
- May 19
- May 20
- May 21
- May 22
- May 23
- May 24
- May 25
- May 26
- May 27
- May 28
- May 29 – Robert Anderson, American child murderer (executed) (d. 2006)
- May 30
June[]
- 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
- June 7 – Tom McCarthy, American film director and actor
- June 8
- June 10 – Laura Silverman, American actress and voice actress
- June 13 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
- June 14
- June 15 – Roberto Carnevale, Italian musician
- June 16
- June 18 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
- June 19 – Samuel West, British actor
- June 21 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (d. 2006)
- June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
- June 26 – Dany Boon, French comedian and filmmaker
- June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
- June 28
- June 29 – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Indonesian politician and former governor of Jakarta
- June 30
July[]
- July 1
- July 3
- July 5
- July 6 – Brian Posehn, American actor and comedian
- July 7 – Gundula Krause, German violinist
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10 – Gina Bellman, British actress
- July 11
- July 12 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
- July 14 – Matthew Fox, American actor
- July 15 – Irène Jacob, French-born actress
- July 16 – Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy, Malaysian lawyer
- July 18
- July 19 – Nancy Carell, American actress
- July 20 – Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, Governor of the State of Mexico (2005–2011)
- July 21 – Sarah Waters, British novelist
- July 22 – Tim Brown, American football player
- July 25 – Wataru Takagi, Japanese voice actor
- July 28
- July 29 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor
- July 30
- July 31 – Dean Cain, American actor
August[]
September[]
- September 1 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
- September 2 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
- September 4 – Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer
- September 6
- September 7
- September 8 – Carola Häggkvist, Swedish pop singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1991 winner
- September 9
- September 11 – Holly Glynn, former unidentified decedent (d. 1987)
- September 12
- September 19 – Soledad O'Brien, American television journalist and news anchor
- September 20 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter
- September 21 – James Richardson, English television presenter and journalist
- September 22
- September 24 – Michael J. 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[]
- October 1
- October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
- October 3 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (d. 2000)
- October 5 – Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
- October 6
- October 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author
- October 8 – Aaron Callaghan, Irish football club executive
- October 9 – David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- October 10
- October 11
- October 12 – Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
- October 13 – José Ángel Llamas, Mexican actor
- October 14 – Savanna Samson, American porn star
- October 15
- October 16 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress and director
- October 18
- 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 26 – Steve Valentine, Scottish actor
- October 27 – Matt Drudge, American conservative journalist
- October 28
- October 30 – Zoran Milanović, Prime Minister of Croatia
- October 31
November[]
- November 2
- November 3 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
- November 6
- November 8 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish 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
- November 13 – Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (d. 2009)
- November 14 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player
- November 15 – Rachel True, American actress
- November 16 – Stephen Critchlow, English actor
- November 17
- November 19
- November 21 – Troy Aikman, American sports commentator and former pro football player
- November 22 – Michael K. Williams, American actor
- November 23
- November 24 – Juan Pablo Gamboa, Colombian actor
- November 25
- November 26 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-American actress, singer and former fashion model
- November 27 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
- November 28 – Narumi Yasuda, Japanese actress
- November 29 – John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler
- November 30
December[]
- December 1
- December 3 – Adam Berry, American composer
- December 4
- December 5 – Patricia Kaas, French singer and actress
- December 7
- December 8
- December 9
- Tim Bull, Australian politician
- Michael Foster, drummer for rock band FireHouse
- Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
- Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
- Dave Harold, English professional snooker player
- Toby Huss, American actor
- Mário Centeno, Portuguese economist and politician
- Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player
- Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player
- Mateo Romero, Native American painter
- Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
- Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan
- Martin Taylor, footballer coach
- Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer
- December 11
- December 12
- December 13 – Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
- December 14
- December 15 – Katja von Garnier, German film director
- December 16 – Dennis Wise, English footballer
- December 17 – Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer
- December 19
- December 20 – Ed de Goeij, Dutch footballer
- December 21 – Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor and film director
- December 22 – Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
- December 24 – Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice actor
- December 25 – Stephen Twigg, British politician
- December 26 – Jay Yuenger, American musician and producer
- December 27 – Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler
- December 28 – Kaliopi, Macedonian singer-songwriter
- December 30
- December 31 – Maddie Taylor, American voice actress and comedian
Date unknown[]
Deaths[]
January[]
February[]
- February 1
- February 3 – June Walker, American actress (b. 1900)
- February 6 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
- February 9 – Sophie Tucker, American singer (b. 1884)
- February 10 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
- February 12 – Frank Merrill, American actor (b. 1893)
- February 15
- February 17 – Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
- February 18 – Robert Rossen, American film director (b. 1908)
- February 20 – Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
- February 25 – Victor Kravchenko, Soviet writer (b. 1905)
- February 26 – Gino Severini, Italian painter (b. 1883)
- February 28 – Jonathan Hale, American actor (b. 1891)
March[]
April[]
- April 1 – Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
- April 2 – C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
- April 3 – Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
- April 6 – Julia Faye, American actress (b. 1893)
- April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903)
- April 13
- April 17 – Mario Serandrei, Italian or and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- April 19 – Javier Solís, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
- April 20 – Prince Frederick of Prussia (b. 1911)
- April 21 – Sepp Dietrich, Nazi German military leader (b. 1892)
- April 23 – George Ohsawa, Japanese dietist, founder of Macrobiotics (b. 1893)
- April 24 – Tino Pattiera, Yugoslav-born Italian tenor (b. 1890)
- April 29 – Eugene O'Brien, American actor (b. 1880)
May[]
- May 4 – Amédée Ozenfant, French painter (b. 1886)
- May 8 – Erich Pommer, German film producer (b. 1889)
- May 11 – Alfred Wintle, British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897)
- May 14 – Ludwig Meidner, German painter (b. 1884)
- May 15
- May 20 – Carlos Arruza, Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920)
- May 21 – Pat O'Malley, American actor (b. 1890)
- May 22 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
- May 23 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
- May 24 – Jim Barnes, English golf champion (b. 1886)
- May 25 – Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (b. 1890)
- May 26 – Don Castle, American actor (b. 1917)
- May 29 – James Woolf, British film producer (b. 1919)
June[]
- June 1 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
- June 3 – Nicholas Straussler, Hungarian engineer (b. 1891)
- June 6 – Ethel Clayton, American actress (b. 1882)
- June 7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
- June 8 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
- June 11 – Wallace Ford, English-born American actor (b. 1898)
- June 12 – Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)
- June 15 – Sankichi Takahashi, Japanese admiral (b. 1882)
- June 19 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
- June 20 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
- June 30
July[]
- July 2
- July 3 – Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885)
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7 – Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901)
- July 9 – Marija Petković, Yugoslav Roman Catholic foundress, blessed, venerable and servant of God (b. 1892)
- July 11 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
- July 12
- July 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
- July 18 – Bobby Fuller, American rock and roll musician (b. 1942)
- July 21
- July 23
- July 25 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)
- July 26 – Jean-Edouard de Castella, Swiss painter (b. 1881)
- July 31
August[]
September[]
- September – Stepan Bogomyagkov, Sovier red army commander (b. 1890)
- September 3 – Fu Lei, Chinese translator (b. 1908)
- September 5 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman and architect (b. 1879)
- September 6
- September 11 – C. E. Woolman, American Airlines founder (b. 1889)
- September 14
- September 17 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- September 19 – Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Soviet scientist and general (b. 1874)
- September 20 – Fritz Delius, German actor and artist (b. 1890)
- September 21 – Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 77th Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
- September 26 – Helen Kane, American singer (b. 1904)
- September 28
- September 30 – Te Kani te Ua, New Zealand tribal leader (b. 1892)
October[]
November[]
- November 2
- November 4 – Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (b. 1894)
- November 8 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. 1891)
- November 9 – Jisaburō Ozawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)
- November 12 – Shakeb Jalali, Pakistani poet (b. 1934)
- November 14
- November 17 – James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, the first American jet fighter ace (b. 1923)
- November 19 – Arthur Haynes, English comedian (b. 1914)
- November 21 – Władysław Bortnowski, Polish historian and military commander (b. 1891)
- November 23 – Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- November 26 – Siegfried Kracauer, German writer, sociologist and critic (b. 1889)
- November 28 – Boris Podolsky, American physicist (b. 1896)
December[]
- December 2 – Luitzen Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
- December 3 – Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai, Egyptian historian (b. 1889)
- December 4 – Maria Donati, Italian actress (b. 1898)
- December 6 – Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan poet, 37th President of Paraguay (b. 1897)
- December 11 – Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist (b. 1881)
- December 14
- December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)
- December 19 – Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879)
- December 20 – Arturo Riccardi, Italian general (b. 1878)
- December 22
- December 23 – David J. Stewart, American actor (b. 1915)
- December 26 – Husayn Al-Khalidi, Jordanian statesman, 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1895)
- December 27 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)
- December 30 – Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State (b. 1895)
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