Deaths in September 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1966[]

1[]

  • Karl Bergelt, German Navy officer during World War II (b. 1902)
  • Mabel Capper, British suffragist (b. 1888)

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3[]

  • Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Russian-born American composer (b. 1896)
  • Dick Barwegan, American professional football player (b. 1921)
  • Sir Robert Bristow, English engineer (b. 1880)
  • Chen Mengjia, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1911)
  • Wesley Dennis, American illustrator (b. 1903)
  • Fu Lei, Chinese translator and art critic (b. 1908)
  • Frank Golding, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
  • Irving Klaw, American pornographer (b. 1910)

4[]

5[]

  • William Murdoch Buchanan, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1897)
  • Edward Denman Clarke, Finnish-born British flying ace of World War I (b. 1898)
  • Edward English, English cricketer (b. 1864)
  • George Koch, American football player (b. 1919)
  • Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, and architect (b. 1879)

6[]

  • Elmer Blaney Harris, American author (b. 1878)
  • Einar W. Juva, Finnish historian and professor (b. 1892)
  • Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879)
  • Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-born Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
  • Gen. Leon Kromer, American Army general (b. 1876)
  • Reuben Levy, British academic (b. 1891)

7[]

  • Viktor Ader, Estonian footballer (b. 1910)
  • Al Kelly, Russian-born American comedian (b. 1896)

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10[]

  • Blair Cherry, American baseball and football coach (b. 1901)
  • Arthur Cock, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
  • Saul Gorss, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Emil Julius Gumbel, German-born American mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
  • Piero Jahier, Italian poet, translator, and journalist (b. 1884)
  • Vere Johns, Jamaican impresario (b. 1893)
  • Francis Kendall, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • James Langridge, English cricketer (b. 1906)

11[]

  • Arthur Affleck, Australian pilot (b. 1903)
  • Hans von Ahlfen, German General in the Second World War (b. 1897)
  • Charley Aylett, Australian politician (b. 1913)
  • Charlie Cantor, American radio actor (b. 1898)
  • Bill Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1891)
  • Eva Justin, German Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1909)
  • C. E. Woolman, American Airlines founder (b. 1889)

12[]

  • Florence E. Allen, American judge; the first woman to serve on a state supreme court (Ohio), and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge (b. 1884)
  • Francis Sheed Anderson CB, Scottish businessman, civil servant and Liberal Party politician (b. 1897)
  • Iosif Czako, Romanian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Earl J. Glade, American politician, mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah (b. 1885)
  • Norman Kendrew, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • Aketo Nakamura, Japanese general (b. 1889)
  • Louis Wilkinson, British writer (b. 1881)

13[]

  • Wiktor Andersson, Swedish film actor (b. 1887)
  • Dora Barton, English actress (b. 1884)
  • Major General Francis William Billado, American military officer and politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard (b. 1907)
  • Clemente Canepari, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1886)
  • John Christoffersen, Danish wrestler, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1898)
  • Ralph Comstock, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • Alfred Engelsen, Norwegian gymnast and diver, gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
  • Alfred A. Gilman, American Anglican missionary to China (b. 1878)
  • Tomoshige Samejima, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)

14[]

  • Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Alexandre Bioussa, French rugby union player, member of the silver medal-winning French team at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 190])
  • Nikolay Cherkasov, Soviet actor (b. 1903)
  • Arthur Davies, English Anglican priest (b. 1878)
  • Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1881)
  • Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and statesman, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895)
  • Geoffrey MacLaren, English cricketer (b. 1883)

15[]

  • Frank G. Ashbrook, American mammalogist (b. 1892)
  • Leonard Brockington, Welsh-born Canadian civil servant, first president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (b. 1888)
  • Adm. Herbert G. Hopwood, American admiral (b. 1898)

16[]

  • Anandashram Swami, Indian ninth guru and the Head of the community of the Chitrapur Saraswats (b. 1902)
  • Lawrence Joseph Bader, American whose disappearance and later reappearance caused controversy (b. 1926)
  • Judah A. Joffe, Ukrainian-born American philologist (b. 1873)
  • Carlos Kluwe, Brazilian footballer (b. 1890)

17[]

  • Selmer Berg, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1886)
  • Mário Filho, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1908)
  • Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)

18[]

  • Ian Bedford, English cricketer (b. 1930)
  • Gen. Horace H. Fuller, American general during World War II (b. 1886)
  • Albert Johnson, American jockey (b. 1900)
  • Dinny Lanigan, Irish hurler (b. 1891)

19[]

  • José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1888)
  • Adrien Borel, French psychiatrist (b. 1886)
  • Albert van der Sandt Centlivres, South African jurist, Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1887)
  • Albert Divo, French race car driver (b. 1895)
  • Gen. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Soviet weapons designer and general during World War II (b. 1874)
  • Otto Kinkeldey, American musicologist (b. 1878)
  • Bob Lang, American football player (b. 1892)
  • Einar Langfeldt, Norwegian physician and professor (b. 1884)

20[]

  • William Baragwanath, Australian surveyor and geologist (b. 1878)
  • Pierre E. Belliveau, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (b. 1896)
  • Fritz Delius, German actor (b. 1890)
  • Hubert L. Eaton, American businessman (b. 1881)
  • James Gunn, American screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Mary Mackenzie, British actress (b. 1922)

21[]

  • James Jamieson, Scottish dentist (b. 1875)
  • Billy Lane Lauffer, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1945)
  • Paul Reynaud, French politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1878)

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23[]

24[]

  • Kálmán Blahó, Hungarian sprint canoer, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (b. 1920)

25[]

26[]

  • Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, veteran Indian Independence activist (b.1900)[1]
  • Aleksandr Anufriyev, Soviet athlete, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics (b.1926)
  • Bill Atkinson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1876)
  • Jimmy Bridges, English cricketer (b. 1887)
  • Gus Edson, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
  • Andrew Keith Jack, Australian physicist and explorer of Antarctica (b. 1885)
  • Helen Kane, American singer (b. 1904)
  • Phil Hopkins, Welsh rugby player (b. 1880)
  • Victor LaMer, American chemist (b. 1895)

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28[]

  • André Breton, French poet and writer (b. 1896)
  • Charles Lawrence Bishop, Canadian journalist and politician, member of the Canadian Senate (b. 1876)
  • Eric Fleming, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Chester A. Kowal, American politician, Mayor of Buffalo, New York (b. 1904)
  • Erik Lindberg, Swedish sculptor, designed the Nobel Prize medals (b. 1873)

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30[]

  • John Barrett, American football player (b. 1899)
  • Lt. Gen. Iven Mackay, Australian soldier and diplomat, general during World War II, and Australian High Commissioner to India (b. 1882)

References[]

  1. ^ "Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi". mpositive.in.
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