Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1966

Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen fue un atleta finlandés especialista en pruebas de larga distancia que ganó cuatro medallas de oro olímpicas y una de plata entre los Juegos Olímpicos de Estocolmo 1912 y Amberes 1920.

Genica Athanasiou was a Romanian-French stage and film actress.

Earl Rudolph Powell, conocido como Bud Powell, fue un pianista y compositor estadounidense de jazz, y una de las figuras fundamentales del bebop.

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, who had western stars John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers under contract. Between the years 1935 and 1959, Republic, under Yates' leadership, made 956 feature films and 849 movie serial chapters, some of which are considered classics screened on television and later released on home video.

Howard Jackson was an American film composer of feature movies and industry documentaries. He was often uncredited.

James Joseph Rorimer, was an American museum curator and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was a primary force behind the creation of the Cloisters, a branch of the museum dedicated to the art and architecture of Medieval Europe. During World War II, Rorimer served in the U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, a.k.a. the "Monuments Men," protecting cultural sites and recovering stolen art work.

Jean Marchat fue un actor teatral y cinematográfico de nacionalidad francesa.

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, de nacimiento Mallam Abubakar fue un líder político nigeriano.