* 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 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

* 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 )

Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom All Gas and Gaiters ( 1966 ).

Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, consisting of three MC's: Grand Puba ( born Maxwell Dixon, on March 4, 1966 ), Sadat X ( formerly Derek X, born Derek Murphy, on December 29, 1968 ) and Lord Jamar ( born Lorenzo Dechalus, on September 17, 1968 ), and two DJs: DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere.

* The Loving Kind: 1966 with Pete ( Kircher ) Carter ( drums ); Jim Leverton ( bass ); and Derek Knight ( vocals ).

Graham Hill won the 1966 race with Amon winning the final Tasman formulae race in 1969 leading home Ferrari team mate Derek Bell for a dominant 1-2 at Lakeside Raceway.

* 50th ( Northumbrian ) Infantry Division ( 50th Northumbrian District by 1966, under Major General Derek Horsford )

* Derek Sherinian ( born 1966 ), keyboardist

* Derek Flint, the title character of Our Man Flint ( 1966 ) and In Like Flint ( 1967 ), a " hipster spy " played by James Coburn

Patrick Galen Dempsey ( born January 13, 1966 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (" McDreamy ") on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

Derek Sherinian ( born August 25, 1966 ) is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Alice In Chains.

In Belfast ( 1962 – 1966 ), Hobsbaum organised a new weekly discussion group, which became known as The Belfast Group and included the emerging authors John Bond, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Stewart Parker and Bernard MacLaverty.

Geoffrey E. Perry ( 4 August 1927, Braintree, Essex – 18 January 2000, Bude ) was a physics teacher at Kettering Grammar School, Northamptonshire, England who, together with his colleague Derek Slater, and students, deduced the existence of the previously-secret Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1966 by analyzing the orbit of the Cosmos 112 satellite.

* 1966 – 1983 ( Eldred ) Derek Slynn

He appeared in various film roles, including East of Sudan ( 1964 ), Hotel Paradiso ( 1966 ), Frankenstein Created Woman ( 1967 ) and The Smashing Bird I Used to Know ( 1969 ), prior to becoming familiar to British television viewers as ' Mr. Derek ' in the children's series The Basil Brush Show, replacing Rodney Bewes as presenter.

His plays include Terminus ( 1966 ), Dog, and An Echo in the Bone ( 1974 ); the latter was published, together with a play by Derek Walcott and one by Errol Hill, in Plays for Today ( 1985 ), edited by Hill.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

* 1966 – John Hudek, American baseball player

* 1966 – Halle Berry, American model and actress

* Adrian Hanauer ( born 1966 ), American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC

* 1966 – Scott Brosius, American baseball player

* 1966 – Barry Lather, American choreographer and director

* 1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter

* 1966 – John Wetteland, American baseball player

* 1966 – Albert Belle, American baseball player

* 1966 – Robert Maschio, American actor

* 1966 – Bill Romanowski, American football player

* 1966 – Michael Michele, American actress

* 1966 – David Justice, American baseball player

* 1966 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.