Deaths in March 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1966[]

1[]

  • Hugh Baillie, American journalist, head of UP (b. 1890)
  • George William Chafer, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1894)
  • Károly Csapkay, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1894)
  • Arthur Henry Davey, New Zealand master mariner (b. 1878)
  • Rick Decker, American race car driver (b. 1903)
  • Karel Dostal, Czech actor (b. 1884)
  • Adm. Sir John Eccles, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1898)
  • Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
  • William R. Munroe, American admiral (b. 1886)
  • Donald Stewart, American-born English actor (b. 1910)

2[]

3[]

  • Alfonso Castaldo, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Naples (b. 1890)
  • Peter S. Connor, American marine, received the Medal of Honor (b. 1932)
  • Bernard Charles Cotton, English-born Australian malacologist (b. 1905)
  • Joseph Fields, American playwright (b. 1895)
  • Jack Fier, American film producer (b. 1896)
  • William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887)
  • William Dickson Lang, British geologist (b. 1878)
  • Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
  • Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)

4[]

  • Stanley Anderson, English artist (b. 1884)
  • Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1895)
  • Bernhard Grant, British philatelist (b. 1887)
  • Thomas Loveday, British university administrator (b. 1875)

5[]

  • Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
  • Robert John Hibbs, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
  • Sir Claude Liardet, British general during World War II (b. 1881)
  • Charles Lomberg, Swedish decathlete, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)

6[]

  • Louis-Mathias Auger, Canadian teacher and Liberal Party politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1902)
  • Charles F. Buddy, American Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego (b. 1887)
  • Giorgio Bulgari, Italian businessman (Bulgari) (b. 1890)
  • Christian Günther, Swedish diplomat and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs during World War II (b. 1886)
  • Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, Guatemalan labor leader (b. 1922)
  • Richard Hageman, Dutch-born American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
  • Gen. Leland Hobbs, American general during World War II (b. 1892)
  • Spiridon Kacarosi, Albanian politician, head of the Albanian Secret Service (b. 1891)
  • Enrique López Albújar, Peruvian writer (b. 1872)
  • Michitaro Totsuka, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)

7[]

  • William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, English businessman and Conservative Party politician (b. 1907)
  • Donald B. Beary, American admiral (b. 1888)
  • Bill Cahill, Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
  • George Camsell, English footballer (b. 1902)
  • Sir Nigel Colman, 1st Baronet, British politician, MP (b. 1886)
  • Hilding Ekman, Swedish runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
  • Georg Faber, German mathematician (b. 1877)
  • Spider Johnson, American football player (b. 1907)
  • Yosef Leifer, Austro-Hungarian-born American rabbi (b. 1891)

8[]

  • Sir John Blake-Reed, British judge (b. 1882)
  • Roger L. Dell, American jurist, Chief Justice of Minnesota (b. 1897)
  • Roderick Falconer, English cricketer (b. 1886)
  • Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Egyptian painter (b. 1925)
  • Adán Gordón, Panamanian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics (b. 1906)
  • Sir Norman Kendal, British barrister and police administrator (b. 1880)

9[]

  • John F. Baldwin, Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1915)
  • René Barbier, French fencer, silver medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1891)
  • Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
  • George Cornell, English criminal (b. c. 1928)
  • Gen. Sir Lewis Halliday, English Royal Marines general, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1870)

10[]

  • Walter Heywood Bryan, Australian geologist (b. 1891)
  • Émile Coulonvaux, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
  • Sophie Harris, English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (b. 1900)
  • Hubertus Hitschhold, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II (b. 1912)
  • Frank O'Connor, Irish writer (b. 1903)
  • Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

11[]

  • James Barnhill, American football official (b. 1921)
  • James E. Fitzsimmons, American racehorse trainer (b. 1874)
  • Ivan Greenberg, English journalist (b. 1896)
  • Frank Hodgins, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
  • W. M. Holland, American politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1875)
  • Willis Kent, American film producer (b. 1878)
  • Jean Laigret, French biologist (b. 1893)

12[]

  • Victor Brauner, Romanian artist (b. 1903)
  • George Caldwell, American builder (b. 1892)
  • Sir Sydney Camm, English aeronautical engineer (b. 1893)
  • Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1890)

13[]

  • Guido Bruck, Austrian numismatist (b. 1920)
  • Max Clara, Italian-born German anatomist (b. 1899)
  • Johnny Duncan, Scottish footballer (b. 1896)
  • Henry R. Harmer, British philatelist (b. 1870)
  • Frederick Lister, British Legionnaire (b. 1886 or 1887)
  • Verner Magnusson, Swedish long-distance runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1890)

14[]

  • Leon Isserlis, Russian-born British statistician (b. 1881)
  • Lee Magee, American baseball player and manager (b. 1889)

15[]

  • Osendé Afana, Cameroonian guerrilla (b. 1930)
  • Ruth Dalton, British politician, MP (b. 1890)
  • Yenovk Der Hagopian, Turkish-born American artist (b. 1900)
  • James Donahue, American pentathlete, silver medalist at 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1885)
  • Norman Augustus Finch, English sergeant in the Royal Marines, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
  • Chappie Geygan, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • Henry D. Larcade Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (b. 1890)

16[]

  • Joseph-Odilon Duval, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1895)
  • Gavriil Gorelov, Russian painter (b. 1880)
  • Lê Văn Đệ, Vietnamese painter (b. 1906)

17[]

  • Don Eagle, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
  • Lindsay Merritt Inglis, New Zealand general and chief judge of the Allied Control Commission's Supreme Court in Germany after World War II (b. 1894)
  • Santiago Lovell, Argentine boxer, gold medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympics (b. 1912)

18[]

  • Frank Bennett, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) (b. 1904)
  • Frank Gaha, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1894)
  • Arthur T. Hannett, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1884)
  • Osvald Helmuth, Danish actor (b. 1894)
  • Robert F. Hill, Canadian film director (b. 1886)

19[]

  • Erik Aaes, Danish set designer and art director (b. 1899)
  • Josué Jéhouda, Russian-born Swiss writer and Zionist (b. 1892)

20[]

  • Laurence Abrams, English professional footballer (b. 1889)
  • Demetrios Galanis, Greek artist (b. 1879)
  • Anne Hocking, British writer (b. 1890)
  • Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (b. 1895)

21[]

  • Norman Coates, British army officer and politician, MP (b. 1890)
  • Tom Fern, English footballer (b. 1886)
  • Frank Finnan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (B. 1897)
  • Ronald Acott Hall, British diplomat and politician (b. 1892)
  • Sam Honaker, American football player (b. 1887)
  • Solomon Clifford Joseph, British flying ace during World War I (b. 1893)

22[]

  • Bruno Bieler, German general during World War II (b. 1888)
  • Horrie Brain, Australian rules footballer (b. 1885)
  • Henry Bray, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
  • Gen. Sir Dallas Brooks, British military commander, Governor of Victoria, Australia (b. 1896)
  • Everett Glass, American actor (b. 1891)
  • John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
  • Jacob Lestschinsky, Ukrainian-born American-Israeli statistician (b. 1876)

23[]

  • Peggy Allenby, American silent film, television, and radio actress (b. 1901)
  • August Bach, East German politician (b. 1897)
  • Bertil Bothén, Swedish sailor, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
  • Fred T. Long, American baseball player and football coach (b. 1896)
  • Marie Elisabeth Lüders, German politician, member of the Reichstag and of the Bundestag (b. 1878)

24[]

25[]

  • G.R. Blanco White, English judge (b. 1883)
  • Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, Maharajah of Bastar state (b. 1929)
  • Venelin Ganev, Bulgarian politician and regent for tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (b. 1880)
  • Serafima Hopner, Soviet politician (b. 1880)

26[]

  • Wilhelm Engel Bredal, Norwegian politician, Member of Parliament (b. 1907)
  • Morris Doob, American sports shooter, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1907)
  • Robert Gibson, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (b. 1932)
  • Victor Hochepied, French swimmer, competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (b. 1883)

27[]

  • Sir Archer Baldwin, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (b. 1883)
  • Pannalal Bhattacharya, Bengali singer
  • Jan Čarek, Czech writer (b. 1898)
  • Hermann Garrn, German footballer (b. 1888)
  • Hermann Harrendorf, German general during World War II (b. 1896)
  • Ragnar Josephson, Swedish art historian (b. 1891)
  • Karl König, Austrian paediatrician (b. 1902)
  • Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)

28[]

  • Roy Bell, New Zealand-Australian ornithologist (b. 1882)
  • William W. Church, American football coach (b. 1874)
  • Toni Edgar-Bruce, British actress (b. 1892)
  • Buntarō Futagawa, Japanese film director (b. 1899)
  • Max Ilgner, German industrialist, board member of IG Farben and convicted of spoliation and plunder after World War II (b. 1899)
  • George Ward Linn, American philatelist (b. 1884)

29[]

  • Alfred Edwin Brain Jr., English-born American musician (b. 1885)
  • Knut Gard, Norwegian resistance leader (b. 1905)
  • Jazz Gillum, American harmonica player (b. 1902 or 1904)
  • Stylianos Gonatas, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece 1922-1924 (b. 1876)
  • Dessaline Harris, Liberian jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Liberia (b. 1895)
  • Albert-Édouard Janssen, Belgian banker and politician, Minister of Finance (b. 1883)
  • Leon Lumsdaine, Chinese-born British athlete, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics (b. 1923)

30[]

  • Frederick Gordon Bradley, Canadian and Newfoundland politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons and Canadian Senate, Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1886)
  • Jelly d'Arányi, Hungarian violinist (b. 1893)
  • Kim Jong-oh, South Korean soldier, president of the South Korean Military Academy (b. 1921)
  • Sir Clutha Mackenzie, New Zealand politician, MP (b. 1895)
  • Erwin Piscator, German theater director (b. 1893)

31[]

  • Grady Adkins, nicknamed "Butcher Boy", American professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox) (b. 1897)
  • Fortunato Calcagno, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1900)
  • William David Doherty, English rugby player and hospital administrator (b. 1893)
  • Arthur Robert Hogg, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1903)
  • Samuel A. Levine, Polish-born American cardiologist (b. 1891)

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