Deaths in October 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1966[]

Elizabeth Arden

1[]

  • Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, American mobster (b. 1900)
  • Donald S. Day, American reporter and collaborator with Nazi Germany (b. 1895)
  • Cyril Dumpleton, British politician, MP (b. 1897)
  • Germaine Lecomte, French fashion designer (b. 1889)
  • Kenneth Mackenzie, British cleric, Bishop of Brechin (b. 1876)

2[]

  • Egmont Arens, American publisher of literature and art, industrial designer, and commercial artist (b. 1889)
  • Jules Boedt, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
  • Jumbo Brown, American baseball player (b. 1907)
  • Anna Lesznai, Hungarian-born American artist and writer (b. 1995)

3[]

  • George van den Bergh, Dutch law professor and amateur astronomer (b. 1890)
  • Teodors Bergs, Latvian chess master (b. 1902)
  • Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, English judge (b. 1899)
  • Ivy Gibbs, English-born Australian and New Zealand writer (b. c. 1886)
  • Charles Hand, Hong Kong-born Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (b. 1900)
  • George Heinz, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
  • Dave Lambert, American jazz singer (b. 1917)

4[]

5[]

  • Korbinian Aigner, known as Apfelpfarrer ("apple pastor"), German Catholic priest and pomologist (b. 1885)
  • Hilda Sofie Kindt, Norwegian politician (b. 1881)

6[]

  • Sir George Abbiss OBE, British Chief Constable in the London Metropolitan Police (b. 1884)
  • Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, English academic, Director of the London School of Economics (b. 1886)
  • Pierre Couderc, French screenwriter and actor (b. 1896)
  • Mitchell Fields, Romanian-born American sculptor (b. 1901)
  • Harry Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1896)
  • Eddie Harris, Australian rules footballer (b. 1879)
  • Bill Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1901)

7[]

  • Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter of urban Greek music (b. 1890)
  • John Haire, Baron Haire of Whiteabbey, British politician, MP (b. 1908)
  • Mauritz Johansson, Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
  • Johnny Kidd, English singer (b. 1935)
  • Smiley Lewis, African-American R&B musician (b. 1913)
  • George Magerkurth, American baseball umpire (b. 1888)

8[]

  • Juan Batlle Planas, Spanish-born Argentine painter (b. 1911)
  • Célestin Freinet, French educational reformer (b. 1896)

9[]

  • Fedor Astakhov, Soviet Marshal of the aviation (b. 1892)
  • William Gage Brady, Jr., American banker, chairman of the National City Bank of New York (b. 1887)
  • Leslie Irvin, American parachutist and stuntman (b. 1895)
  • Franz Xaver Kappus, Austrian-German writer (b. 1883)
  • Artturi Lehtinen, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to Canada (b. 1896)

10[]

  • Melville E. Abrams, American lawyer and politician from New York; member of the NY State Assembly (b. 1912)
  • Abraham Binder, American composer (b. 1895)
  • Kurt Bolender, German SS-man, operated the gas chambers at Sobibór(b. 1912)
  • Colette Bonheur, née Colette Chailler, Canadian singer (b. 1927)
  • Charlotte Cooper, English tennis champion (b. 1870)
  • Robert Desoille, French psychotherapist (b. 1890)
  • Vladimir Dyomin, Soviet footballer and coach (b. 1921)
  • Jack Ferguson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
  • Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900)
  • Patsy Gharrity, American baseball player (b. 1892)
  • William Wells Hewitt, English-Canadian organist and composer (b. 1898)
  • Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900)
  • Slip Madigan, American football player and coach (b. 1896)

11[]

  • Mabel Conkling, American sculptor (b. 1871)
  • Wunibald Kamm, Swiss-born German automobile designer (b. 1893)
  • Roger Sherman Loomis, American academic (b. 1887)
  • Jack Loutet, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1885)
  • Filipe Samuel Magaia, Mozambican politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
  • Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1897)

12[]

13[]

  • Muhammad Ibrahim, Pakistani academic, judge, and Minister of Law (b. 1894)
  • Thom de Klerk, Dutch musician (b. 1912)
  • Gijs Lamoree, Dutch athlete, competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1903)
  • Maj. Gen. Walter E. Lauer, American commander during World War II (b. 1893)
  • Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)

14[]

  • George Carstairs, Australian rugby player (b. 1900)
  • Arthur Folwell, English-born Australian rugby player (b. 1904)
  • Roswell Clifton Gibbs, American physicist and academic (b. 1878)

15[]

  • Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell CBE, British Labour Party politician (b. 1876)
  • Jon Andrå, Norwegian Labour Party politician (b. 1888)
  • Lee Blair, American jazz musician (b. 1903)
  • Adam Falkenstein, German Assyriologist (b. 1906)
  • Ross Gunn, American physicist (b. 1897)
  • Jean Lauk, French cyclist (b. 1918)

16[]

  • Arturo Dazzi, Italian artist (b. 1881)
  • George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)

17[]

  • Dalziel Hammick, British chemist (b. 1887)
  • Sidney Hatch, American athlete, silver medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1883)
  • Dhammalok Mahasthavir, Nepalese Buddhist monk (b. 1890)
  • Vladislav Korchits, Polish-Soviet general and politician (b. 1893)
  • Alexander Kulik, Russian cleric (b. 1911)

18[]

  • Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)
  • Cyril Briggs, Nevis-born American Communist Party leader (b. 1888)
  • Joe Chandler, Australian rules footballer (b. 1877)
  • Honor Crowley, Irish politician, TD (b. 1903)
  • S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founder of Kmart (b. 1867)

19[]

  • Scott Leavitt, American politician, U.S. Representative from Montana (b. 1879)
  • Waldo Gifford Leland, American historian and archivist (b. 1879)
  • Russell Lewis American football coach (b. 1895)

20[]

  • Harry F. Byrd, American politician, Senator from Virginia (b. 1887)
  • Sir Roy Cameron, Australian pathologist, President of the Royal College of Pathologists (b. 1899)
  • Charles Catteau, French industrial designer (b. 1880)
  • Walter Chadwick, English footballer (b. 1903)
  • Mohamed Fawzi, Egyptian composer and singer (b. 1918)

21[]

  • Alfred Cockayne, New Zealand botanist (b. 1880)
  • Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton, British politician (b. 1897)
  • Gen. Otto von Knobelsdorff, German general during World War II (b. 1886)
  • Agnes Syme Macdonald, Scottish suffragist (b. 1882)

22[]

  • George E. Drach, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
  • Jack Evans, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
  • John Garrick, British actor (b. 1902)
  • P. S. Harrison, Ottoman-born American journalist (b. 1880)

23[]

  • Eugenio Bava, Italian cinematographer (b. 1886)
  • George Bell, Australian painter (b. 1878)
  • Fred Fussell, American baseball player (b. 1895)
  • Rafael Larco Hoyle, Peruvian archaeologist (b. 1901)
  • Claire McDowell, silent screen actress (b. 1877)

24[]

  • Joe Bach, American football player (Notre Dame) and coach (Pittsburgh Steelers) (b. 1901)
  • Hans Dreier, German-born American art director (b. 1885)
  • Leo Friedlander, American sculptor (b. 1888)
  • Sam Hardy, English footballer (b. 1882)
  • Norman R. Klug, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1905)

25[]

  • Reginald Crummack, British field hockey player, competed at 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
  • Floyd MacMillan Davis, American artist (b. 1896)
  • Col. William O. Eareckson, American Air Force officer (b. 1900)
  • Johan Helo, Finnish politician and diplomat, Minister of Finance and ambassador to France (b. 1889)
  • Thaddeus Lynch, Irish politician, TD (b. 1901)

26[]

  • Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1917)
  • Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
  • Sir James Coats, 3rd Baronet, British skeleton racer, competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics (b. 1894)
  • Bill Cronin, American baseball player (b. 1902)

27[]

  • Mush Crawford, American football player (b. 1898)
  • Malcolm Dobie, American-born Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (b. 1885)
  • Barry Faulkner, American artist (b. 1881)
  • Nigel Haig, English cricketer (b. 1887)
  • Peter Harvey, English cricketer (b. 1926)
  • Hewlett Johnson, English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury (b. 1874)
  • Edith Kiss, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1905)

28[]

  • Nikolai Belyaev, Soviet politician, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1903)
  • Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1916)
  • Eugène Hénaff, French trade union leader and member of the French Resistance (b. 1904)
  • Franz Herterich, German actor (b. 1877)

29[]

  • Wellman Braud, American jazz musician (b. 1891)
  • Thomas Brennan, Australian politician, Victorian MLC (b. 1900)
  • Jocelyn Brooke, English author (b. 1908)
  • Anthony Cavalcante, American politician, United States Representative for Pennsylvania (b. 1897)
  • Al Grabowski, American baseball player (b. 1901)
  • Peter Illing, Austrian-born British actor (b. 1899)

30[]

  • Dick Barrett, American baseball MLB pitcher (b. 1906)
  • Rex Cecil, American baseball player (b. 1916)
  • John Drainie, Canadian actor and television presenter (b. 1916)
  • Bill Farnsworth, Australian rugby player (b. 1887)
  • Elmer Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1884)

31[]

  • Elsie Leslie (b. 1881)

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