Deaths in December 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1966[]

1[]

• Lewis Albanese, American soldier (Medal of Honor) (b. 1946)
• Peter P. Carr, Danish-born American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (b. 1890)
• Bai Chongxi, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (b. 1893)
• Lewis Creber, British art director (b. 1901)
• Ernest Daunt, Irish Anglican Archdeacon of Cork (b. 1909)
• James Maguire, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1886)

2[]

• Ralph Allen, Canadian journalist, editor, and novelist (b. 1913)
• Luitzen Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
• Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright and radio dramatist (b. 1918)
• Conrad Wilhelm Eger, Norwegian businessman (b. 1880)

3[]

• Nikolai Kolli, Soviet architect (b. 1894)
• Byllee Lang, Canadian sculptor (b. 1908)
• Fritz Langford-Smith, Australian electrical engineer (b. 1904)
• Kui Lee, Chinese-born American singer (b. 1932)

4[]

• Nicholas Afanasiev, Russian-French Eastern Orthodox theologian (b. 1893)
• Thomas Carey, American-born Irish cricketer (b. 1903)
• Crahan Denton, American actor (b. 1914)
• Renate Ewert, German actress (b. 1933)

5[]

• John Irving Bentley, American physician burned to death allegedly caused by spontaneous human combustion (b. 1874)
• Luciano Fernandes, Portuguese footballer (b. 1940)
• Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist, two-time winner of the 1936 and 1939 Tour de France (b. 1909)

6[]

• Mario Alicata, Italian partisan, literary critic and politician; member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1918)
• Laurence F. Arnold, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (b. 1891)
• James Paul Donahue, Jr., American heir and socialite (b. 1915)
• Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay 1948-1949 (b. 1897)
• Hermann Heiss, German composer (b. 1897)

7[]

• William Henry Hewitt, South African recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884)
• Viola Jimulla, American chief of the Prescott Yavapai tribe (b. 1878)

8[]

• Bill Bolden, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• Capt. Richard Gustav Borgelin, Danish military officer (b. 1887)
• Maury Bray, American football player (b. 1909)
• Arthur Byron Coble, American mathematician (b. 1878)

9[]

• Lazarus Aaronson, British poet and lecturer in economics (b. 1895)
• Paul G. Blazer, American oil company executive (b. 1890)
• Morris Fidanque de Castro, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1902)
• Brian Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1932)
• Pelagie Doane, American children's books illustrator (b. 1906)
• Lloyd Klein, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1910)

10[]

• Zoltán Baló, Hungarian general (b. 1883)
• Hans Jørgen Hansen, Danish field hockey player, silver medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1879)
• Boris Koutzen, Russian-born American violinist (b. 1901)
• Gregorio López, Mexican writer (b. 1897)

11[]

• Carleton Allen, Australian professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford (b. 1887)
• Cliff Fannin, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• Richard Himber, American entertainer (b. 1899)
• John Hines, American boxer, competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics (b. 1912)

12[]

• Dino Alfieri, Italian fascist politician and envoy to the Holy See and Nazi Germany (b. 1886)
• Nellie Briercliffe, English singer and actress (b. 1889)
• Bill Devan, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)

13[]

• Jim Baker, English footballer (b. 1891)
• Nils Frykberg, Swedish runner, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
• William Henry Gummer, New Zealand architect (b. 1884)
• Frank C. High, American soldier (Medal of Honor) (b. 1875)
• Ingvald Jaklin, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1896)

14[]

• John Atirau Asher, New Zealand tribal leader, hotelier, interpreter, racehorse owner (b. 1892)
• Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Peruvian diplomat, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1959 (b. 1883)
• Ronnie Byrne, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
• Emma Dunn, English actress (b. 1875)
• Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890)
• , American lawman (b. 1891)
• Paul Galligan, Irish politician, TD (b. 1888)
• , American journalist (b. 1893)
• Carl Hermann Kraeling, American theologian and archaeologist (b. 1897)
• Alexander Lillico, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (b. 1872)
• Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
• Richard Whorf, American actor (b. 1906)

15[]

• Major General Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, British Army officer (b. 1897)
• Sammy Beswick, English footballer (b. 1903)
• Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)

16[]

• Sven Bergqvist, Swedish sportsman, International Hockey Hall of Fame inductee (b. 1914)
• Charles Crawford Davis, American audio engineer (b. c. 1893)
• James Verne Dusenberry, American anthropologist (b. 1906)
• Alex Garrow, British politician, MP (b. 1923)
• André Herbelin, French fighter pilot during World War I (b. 1889)
• Ma Lianliang, Chinese opera singer (b. 1901)

17[]

• Dan Heilman, American illustrator (b. 1922)

18[]

• Hon. Tara Browne, British socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune; according to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" (b. 1945)
• Joseph Cucchiara, Italian missionary priest (b. 1889)
• Gene Gauntier, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1885)

19[]

• Jack Forsyth, American football coach (b. 1892)
• Carroll Gartin, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (b. 1913)
• Ollie Kraehe, American football player (b. 1898)
• Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879)
• Aslaug Låstad Lygre, Norwegian poet (b. 1910)

20[]

• Amram Aburbeh, Israeli rabbi; Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel (b. 1894)
• Rupert Anson, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• Ali Asllani, Albanian poet, politician and activist (b. 1884)
• Doc Farrell, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• Albert Göring, German businessman and anti-Nazi activist (b. 1895)
• Oskar Lebeck, German-born American illustrator (b. 1903)

21[]

• Erich Haenisch, German sinologist (b. 1880)
• Jack Itzel, American football player (b. 1924)

22[]

• Pádraig Ághas, Irish independent politician and schoolteacher; member of Seanad Éireann
• Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888)
• Lucy Burns, American suffragist (b. 1879)
• Sir Clarence Johnston Graham, 1st Baronet, British politician and nobleman (b. 1900)
• James Hill, British politician, MP (b. 1899)
• Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)
• Alice Holford, New Zealand nurse (b. 1867)
• Robert Hopkins, American screenwriter (b. 1886)
• Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)

23[]

• J. Dallett Byers, American jockey and horse trainer (b. 1898)
• Heimito von Doderer, Austrian Nazi author (b. 1896)
• William Rush Dunton, founder of the American Occupational Therapy Association (b. 1868)
• Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer, medals at the 1912, 1920, and 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1882)

24[]

• Ernest Blackham, English footballer (b. 1898)
• Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (b. 1897)
• Thomas Vincent Grant, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons from Prince Edward Island (b. 1876)
• Tommy Jackson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1885)
• Donald MacGillivray, British colonial administrator, British High Commissioner in Malaya (b. 1906)

25[]

• St. Elmo Brady, American academic, first African American to obtain a PhD degree in chemistry in the United States (b. 1884)
• Nick Dandolos, Greek-born American gambler (b. 1883)
• Arnold Harvey, Irish sportsman and Anglican bishop of Cashel and Waterford (b. 1878)

26[]

• Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch novelist (b. 1875)
• Christopher Dahl, Norwegian sailor, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1898)
• Noël Gallon, French composer (b. 1891)
• Herbert Gille, Waffen-SS commander (b. 1897)
• Boris Jacobsohn, American physicist (b. 1918)
• Husayn Al-Khalidi, Ottoman-born Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1895)
• Kalervo Kurkiala, Finnish Waffen-SS officer (b. 1894)
• Tony Lekain, French film director (b. 1888)

27[]

• Ernest K. Bramblett, American politician, United States Congressman from California (b. 1901)
• Ernest Burgess, Canadian-born American sociologist and academic (b. 1886)
• Frankie Genaro, American boxer (1920 Olympic gold medal winner) (b. 1901)
• Herbert Lewis Hardwick, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1914)
• William James, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
• Willis Laurence James, American musician and composer (b. 1900)
• Wivi Lönn, Finnish architect (b. 1872)
• Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)

28[]

• Victor Anfuso, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (b. 1905)
• Frank Chodorov, American libertarian writer (b. 1887)
• Hjalmar Christoffersen, Danish footballer, Denmark national team, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1889)
• Vincenc Makovský, Czech sculptor and industrial designer (b. 1900)

29[]

• Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, British neurologist (b. 1895)
• Aaron H. Grout, American politician, Secretary of State of Vermont (b. 1879)

30[]

• Pietro Ciriaci, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1885)
• Chase A. Clark, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1883)
• Guy Earle, English cricketer (b. 1891)
• Christian Herter, United States politician, Governor of Massachusetts and Secretary of State (b. 1895)
• Henryk Gotlib, Polish-British painter (b. 1890)
• Arthur Lochhead, Scottish footballer (b. 1897)

31[]

• H. Otley Beyer, American anthropologist (b. 1883)
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian (b. 1887)
• Charlie Hewitt, English footballer (b. 1884)
• Raoul Lévy, French film director (b. 1922)
• Walter Lingo, American businessman (b. 1890)

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