* 1966 – Young Man Kang, Korean director

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

* 1966 – Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Dave Meggett, American football player

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach

* 1966 – Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Sean Hood, American screenwriter

* 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese wrestler

* 1966 – M. V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer

* 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player

* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author

* 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor

* 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer

* 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )

One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.

* Charles B. Cox ( editor ), Dylan Thomas: a Collection of Critical Essays, 1966

* 1941 – Charles Whitman, American murderer ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

Other Friedman tunes include " The Ballad of Charles Whitman ," in which Friedman lampooned Whitman's sniper attack from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building tower on August 1, 1966.

* Charles A. Orr, " Trade Unionism in Colonial Africa " Journal of Modern African Studies, 4 ( 1966 ), pp. 65 – 81

* How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education ( 1940 ), 1966 edition subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with Charles Van Doren, The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading: ISBN 0-671-21209-5

" Such aged leadership was incapable of keeping up with the changing times, and in 1966, a sinking Paramount was sold to Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate, Gulf + Western Industries Corporation.

In contrast, Dark Shadows ( 1966 – 1971 ) and Port Charles ( 1997-2003 ) featured supernatural characters and dealt with fantasy and horror storylines.

* Harper, Charles G., Smugglers: Picturesque chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft ( Newcastle upon Tyne, Frank Graham, 1966 )

* Evening Primrose ( 1966 ), a made-for-TV musical about a secret society of people living in department stores and the romance between Ella, a department store denizen, and Charles, a poet who decides to live in the department store after renouncing the world.

Charles de Gaulle once said, in 1966: " Mon seul rival international est Tintin ".

** Charles Whitman, American mass murderer ( d. 1966 )

Heston was born John Charles Carter, the son of Lilla ( née Charlton ; 1899 – 1994 ) and Russell Whitford Carter ( 1897 – 1966 ), a sawmill operator.

In U. S. v. Grinnell, 384 U. S. 563 ( 1966 ), the trial judge, Charles Wyzanski, composed the market only of alarm companies with services in every state, tailoring out any local competitors ; the defendant stood alone in this market, but had the court added up the entire national market, it would have had a much smaller share of the national market for alarm services that the court purportedly used.

* Chaplin, Charles ( 1966 ).

* August 1, 1966: University of Texas Massacre Charles Whitman climbs atop the observation deck at the University of Texas-Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage.

Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO ( 1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966 ) was a British Army officer, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare.

See and fellow astronaut Charles Bassett, assigned as Pilot for Gemini 9, were killed before their mission flew on February 28, 1966, when their T-38 trainer jet crashed into McDonnell Aircraft Building 101, known as the McDonnell Space Center, located 1, 000 feet ( 300 m ) from Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri.

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

The biohazard symbol was developed in 1966 by Charles Baldwin, an environmental-health engineer working for the Dow Chemical Company on the containment products.

* Charles Alvin Jones ( 1887 – 1966 ), U. S. federal judge

* Hapgood, Charles Hutchins ; Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age ; 1966 ; 1997 Paperback Reprint Edition, Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 0-932813-42-9

* 1966 Charles Whitman murders his wife and mother in Austin.