Deaths in June 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1966[]

1[]

  • Herbert Bowmer, English cricketer (b. 1891)
  • Cécile Butticaz, Swiss engineer (b. 1884)
  • Dick Cox, American baseball player (b. 1897)
  • Peter George, British author (b. 1924)
  • Don Herold, American illustrator (b. 1889)
  • Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)

2[]

  • François Ayoub, Syrian Archbishop of Aleppo and Cyprus (b. 1899)
  • Arthur P. Bedou, American photographer (b. 1882)
  • Joe Casey, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • Évariste Kimba, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of Congo (later Zaire), executed (b. 1926)
  • Stephen King-Hall, Baron King-Hall, British politician, writer, and nobleman, MP (b. 1893)

3[]

  • Connie Brown, Canadian hockey player (b. 1917)
  • Alice Calhoun, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Dario Canas, Portuguese sports shooter, Olympic competitor at 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
  • Reuben Swinburne Clymer, American occultist (b. 1878)
  • Stuart Levy, British film producer (b. 1907)
  • Fionán Lynch, British and Irish politician, MP, TD, Irish Minister for Education and for Fisheries (b. 1889)

4[]

  • Chang Myon, South Korean statesman, Vice President, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
  • Arthur C. Cope, American organic chemist (b. 1909)
  • Teddy Davis, American boxer (b. 1923)
  • Blanche Knopf, American publisher (b. 1894)
  • Frances Gertrude Kumm, Australian philanthropist (b. 1886)

5[]

  • Edward Arthur Carr, British colonial administrator of Nigeria (b. 1903)
  • Oakley G. Kelly, American aviator (b. 1891)
  • Lee Choon Seng, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman (b. 1888)
  • Alexander Brown Mackie, American academic (b. 1894)

6[]

  • Sir Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, Welsh politician (b. 1888)
  • Ethel Clayton, American actress (b. 1882)
  • Bernie Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1899)
  • Edward Iwi, English lawyer (b. 1904)
  • Wilhelm Jannasch, German clergyman and academic (b. 1888)
  • Heinz Liepmann, German writer (b. 1905)
  • Elizabeth Christ Trump, German–American businesswoman (b. 1880)

7[]

  • Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
  • Norman Baillie-Stewart, British army officer known as "The Officer in the Tower" when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II (b. 1909)
  • John Adam Day, British politician (b. 1901)
  • James Hickey, Irish politician, TD
  • Otto Hoogesteyn, German-born Dutch swimmer, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1903)
  • Otto Karhi, Finnish politician, MP (b. 1876)

8[]

  • Jim Dixon, American football player (b. 1904)
  • Karl Hasselmann, German cinematographer (b. 1883)
  • Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)

9[]

  • Max Friz, German design engineer (b. 1883)
  • Sherry Edmundson Fry, American sculptor (b. 1879)
  • Tage von Gerber, Swedish genealogist (b. 1885)
  • Per Helmer, Norwegian businessman (b. 1897)
  • St Barbe Holland, English clergyman, Anglican Bishop of Wellington New Zealand (b. 1882)

10[]

  • Joseph Biondo, Italian-born American organized crime figure (b. 1897)
  • Felice Carena, Italian painter (b. 1879)
  • Gunnar Ekstrand, Swedish diver, competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
  • Wally Fraser, Australian rules footballer (b. 1897)

11[]

  • Alfred Berger, Austrian pair skater, Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (b. 1894)
  • Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer and actor (b. 1884)
  • Rube Currie, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • Timothy Curtis, English cricketer (b. 1882)
  • Jimmy Davies, American race car driver (b. 1929)
  • Wallace Ford, English-born American actor (b. 1898)
  • Stewart Judah, American illusionist (b. 1893)
  • Kumazawa Hiromichi, Japanese pretender to the imperial throne (b. 1889)
  • Jud Larson, American racecar driver (b. 1923)

12[]

  • William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (b. 1873)
  • Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)

13[]

14[]

  • Walther Bacmeister, German jurist and ornithologist (b. 1873)
  • Cub Buck, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator (b. 1892)
  • Parnaoz Chikviladze, Soviet judoka, bronze medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics (b. 1941)
  • Henny Dons, Norwegian educator and missionary (b. 1874)

15[]

  • Robert G. Fowler, American aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
  • Israel Kleiner, American biochemist (b. 1885)

16[]

17[]

18[]

  • German Galynin, Soviet composer (b. 1922)
  • Konrad Heiden, German-born American journalist and historian (b. 1901)

19[]

  • Sydney Allard, British racing motorist and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
  • Chalmers Clifton, American conductor and composer (b. 1889)
  • Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer (b. 1907)
  • Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)

20[]

  • Capt. Sir Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet, British soldier, politician, and nobleman, MP (b. 1890)
  • Wilhelm Busch, German pastor and anti-Nazi (b. 1897)
  • Cheng Bugao, Chinese film director (b. 1898)
  • Robert Hense, German footballer (b. 1885)
  • John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington, British aristocrat (b. 1883)
  • Paul Kuhn, German-born American opera singer (b. 1874)
  • Louis-Joseph Lebret, French priest and ethicist (b. 1897)
  • Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894)

21[]

  • Reginald Calvert, British pirate radio station operator (b. 1928)
  • Ferdinando Innocenti, Italian businessman (b. 1891)

22[]

  • Roger Blunt, English-born New Zealand cricketer (b. 1900)
  • E. Yale Dawson, American botanist (b. 1918)
  • Warren S. Eaton, American aviation pioneer (b. 1891)
  • Victor Koumorico, Congolese politician, President of the Senate

23[]

  • Paul Cain, American author (b. 1902)
  • Ted Corday, Canadian-born American television executive (b. 1908)
  • Louis C. Cramton, American politician, United States Representative from Michigan (b. 1875)
  • Frank L. Hagaman, American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1894)
  • Weli Hohenthal, Russian modern pentathlete, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1880)
  • Clara Jacobo, Italian opera singer (b. c. 1898)

24[]

  • Edward Allworth, American officer in the United States Army during World War I (Medal of Honor) (b. 1895)
  • Eric Crankshaw, English cricketer and later Secretary, Government Hospitality Fund (b. 1885)
  • Mick Dunn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1898)
  • Otto-Wilhelm Förster, German general during World War II (b. 1885)
  • J.K. Kennedy, American basketball coach (b. 1907)
  • Mathilde Ludendorff, German psychiatrist and conspiracy theorist (b. 1877)

25[]

  • Ughetto Bertucci, Italian actor (b. 1907)
  • F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
  • Hans Ferdinand Geisler, German Luftwaffe general during World War II (b. 1891)
  • Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
  • F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
  • Wilf Loughlin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1896)
  • Muriel Lowe, English cricketer (b. 1914)
  • Edmund Sebree, American army general (b. 1898)

26[]

  • François Dupré, French hotelier, art collector, racehorse owner/breeder (b. 1888)
  • George King, English film director (b. 1899)

27[]

  • John Davenport, English book reviewer and critic (b. 1908)
  • Marty Krug, German-born American baseball player (b. 1888)

28[]

  • Kenneth Miller Adams, American artist (b. 1897)
  • Gleason Archer, Sr., founder and first president of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1880)
  • Frances Maule Bjorkman, American suffragist (b. 1879)
  • Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)

29[]

  • Lewis Bedford, English footballer (b. 1899)
  • Gustav Kampendonk, German screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Indian mathematician and historian (b. 1907)

30[]

  • Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction (b. 1904)
  • Loretta Bayliss, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1939)
  • Mordaunt Doll, English cricketer (b. 1888)
  • Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
  • Ernest Fawcus, English cricketer (b. 1895)
  • E. B. C. Jones, British writer (b. 1893)
  • Jake Josvanger, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1908)
  • Donald Russell Long, American soldier, awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1939)

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