Deaths in August 1966

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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[]

Lenny Bruce
Jan Kiepura

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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)
  • , 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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