Deaths in November 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1966[]

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  • Sadao Araki, Japanese Army general during World War II (b. 1877)
  • Domenico Cavagnari, Italian admiral, chief of staff of the Italian Royal Navy (b. 1876)
  • Peter Debye, Dutch-American chemist working in Nazi Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
  • Mississippi John Hurt, American singer and guitarist (b. 1893)
  • Culver Hastedt, American sprinter, gold medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
  • Gen. Ben Lear, Canadian-born American equestrian (bronze medal during the 1912 Summer Olympics), and general during World War II (b. 1879)

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  • Byron Barr, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Fritz Baumgarten, German book illustrator (b. 1883)
  • Streeter Blair, American painter (b. 1888)
  • John T. Cahill, American lawyer (b. 1903)

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  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt, British RAF officer, (b. 1891)
  • Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (b. 1894)

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  • Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
  • George Way Harley, American Methodist missionary (b.1894)
  • Gen. Kurt Jahn, German general during World War II (b. 1892)
  • Murray Lincoln, American businessman (b. 1892)

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  • Frank B. Anderson, American college football, and baseball coach as well as athletic director (b. 1882)
  • Shorty Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1914)
  • André Bloc, French sculptor (b. 1896)
  • Sir Philip Colfox, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician, MP (b. 1888)
  • Hans Finohr, German actor (b. 1891)
  • Ronald Holyoake, English cricketer (b. 1894)
  • Norm Jordan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
  • Henry B. Krajewski, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. 1891)

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  • Richard Benz, German historian and writer (b. 1884)
  • Brady P. Gentry, American politician, U.S. Representative from Texas (b. 1896)
  • Peter Hillwood, British test pilot (b. 1920)
  • Andy Iona, American musician (b. 1902)
  • James V. Kern, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1909)
  • Jisaburō Ozawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

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  • Sir Henry Dalton, English police executive (b. 1891)
  • Eddie Erdelatz, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
  • Luther Magby, American singer (b. 1896)

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  • Carl Jonsson, Swedish Olympian, gold medalist in the tug of war competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1885)
  • Helen Hull Law, American academic (b. 1890)

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  • Zeenat Begum, Pakistani singer
  • Donald L. Branson, American racecar driver (b. 1920)
  • Chic Calderwood, Scottish boxer (b. 1937)
  • Bob Gardner, Australian politician (b. 1890)
  • Shakeb Jalali, Pakistani poet (b. 1934)
  • Mike Loan, American baseball player (b. 1894)

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  • Dick Atkins, American race car driver (b. 1936)
  • Mario Chamlee, American opera singer (b. 1892)
  • Joseph Xavier Grant, American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1940)
  • Bamm David Hogarth, Canadian politician and judge, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (b. 1887)
  • Apache, Viet Cong sniper (b. 1936)

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  • Peter Baker, British politician, last MP expelled from the House of Commons (b. 1921)
  • Nikolai Ignatov, Russian-born Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (b. 1901)
  • Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)

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  • Billy Dougall, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1895)
  • Aymar Embury II, American architect (b. 1880)
  • George Gund II, American businessman (b. 1888)
  • William Haade, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Herbert Kessler, Swiss ice hockey player, competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics (b. 1912)

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  • Eric Arbuthnot, South African cricketer (b. 1888)
  • Gord Hannigan, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
  • Cluny Macpherson, Newfoundland and Canadian physician (b. 1879)

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  • Wally Chalmers, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
  • Émile Colinus, French artist (b. 1884)
  • James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, the first American jet fighter ace (b. 1923)
  • Wal Hannington, British Communist leader (b. 1896)
  • Olaf Knudsen, Norwegian wrestler, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1911)

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19[]

  • Mendel Balberyszski, Lithuanian & Polish politician and author on the Holocaust in Lithuania (b. 1894)
  • Ted Belcher, United States Army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1924)
  • Terezie Brzková, Czechoslovak film actress (b. 1875)
  • Francis Craig, American songwriter and bandleader (b. 1900)
  • Émmanuel d'Anjou, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1884)
  • Hens Dekkers, Dutch boxer, competed at the 1936 Olympics (b. 1915)
  • Margarete Haagen, German actress (b. 1889)
  • Arthur Haynes, English comedian (b. 1914)
  • Marcel Lecomte, Belgian writer (b. 1900)

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21[]

  • Władysław Bortnowski, Polish general in World War II (b. 1891)
  • Sir Thomas MacFarland Cherry, Australian mathematician (b. 1898)
  • Jesse Whitfield Covington, United States Navy recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1889)
  • Josef Haszpra, Czechoslovak artist (b. 1882)
  • Pat Hogan, American actor (b. 1920)
  • David L. Lawrence, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1889)

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  • James E. Berry, American politician, four-term Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1881)
  • Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, first Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (b. 1907)
  • Émile Drain, French actor (b. 1890)

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  • Alvin Langdon Coburn, American photographer (b. 1882)
  • Adolph Knopf, American geologist (b. 1882)
  • Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (b. 1882)

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  • Fernande Albany, French actress (b. 1889)
  • Norval Baptie, Canadian speed skater, former world record holder (b. 1879)
  • Ko Cossaar, Dutch painter (b. 1874)
  • István Donogán, Hungarian discus thrower, competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932 (b. 1897)
  • Ralph Gerganoff, Bulgarian-born American architect (b. 1887)
  • Sir William Reginald Halliday, English historian and academic (b. 1886)
  • Thomas L. Holling, American politician, mayor of Buffalo, New York (b. 1889)
  • Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian army officer (b. 1895)
  • Richard Kräusel, German botanist (b. 1890)
  • George Lawson, Australian politician, Minister of Transport (b. 1880)

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  • Harold Burrage, American musician (b. 1931)
  • Oliver Morton Dickerson, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1875)
  • Hamastegh, Ottoman-born American poet and writer (b. 1895)
  • Siegfried Kracauer, German-born American writer (b. 1889)

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  • Wenzel Jaksch, Bohemian-born German politician, member of Czechoslovak parliament and of German Bundestag (b. 1896)

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  • Billy Engle, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1889)
  • Vittorio Giannini, American composer (b. 1903)
  • José Isbert, Spanish actor (b. 1886)
  • Friedrich Karrenberg, German social ethicist (b. 1904)

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  • Faras Hamdan, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (b. 1910)
  • Oluf Gabriel Lund, Norwegian military officer (b. 1873)

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