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

Beginning in 1966, Eric Kandel and collaborators examined biochemical changes in neurons associated with learning and memory storage.

* 1966 – Eric Rudolph, American terrorist

* 1966 Eric Gregory Award

* Wolf, Eric R. Peasants ( Prentice-Hall, 1966 ).

The design of such a 6-jack ( hexapod ) platform was first used by Eric Gough in 1954 in the automotive industry and further refined by Stewart in a 1966 paper to the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and named the Stewart platform.

Relocated from central London in 1966, the studios played host to many of rock and pop's greatest stars down the decades, from The Beatles, who recorded the original tracks of " All You Need Is Love " in Barnes, to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, The Verve, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Madonna and Björk.

* Eric Uptagrafft ( born 1966 ), sport shooter

* Eric Clapton ( April – August 1965, November 1965 – July 1966 ) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,

* 1966: Blues Breakers-John Mayall-With Eric Clapton ( Decca *)

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton was released in the UK on 22 July 1966.

* 1966: Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton ( Decca ) UK # 6

The band's original guitarist Eric Bell, who was a fan of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, bought a copy of The Dandy comic after seeing Eric Clapton depicted reading a copy of its sister publication The Beano on the cover of the 1966 album Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton.

Blues Incorporated and Mayall's Bluesbreakers were well known in the London Jazz and emerging R & B circuits, but the Bluesbreakers began to gain some national and international attention, particularly after the release of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album ( 1966 ), considered one of the seminal British blues recordings.

Eric Robert Rudolph ( born September 19, 1966 ), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is a terrorist responsible for a series of bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured at least 150 others in the name of an anti-abortion and anti-gay agenda.

* White, Eric Walter, Stravinsky: The Man and His Works ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966 ).

Eric Randolph (" Randy ") Barnes ( born June 16, 1966 ) is a former American shot putter who holds both the current outdoor and indoor World Records for the event.

Wooley co-starred as Pete Nolan in the CBS western Rawhide ( 1959 – 1966 ) with Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, and Paul Brinegar.

Eric Kretz ( born June 7, 1966 ) is an American musician and producer, best known as the drummer for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

Optimal foraging theory ( OFT ) was first proposed in 1966, in two papers published independently, by Robert MacArthur and Eric Pianka, and by J. Merritt Emlen.

Eric de Sturler ( born 15 January 1966, Groningen ) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Also in 1966 Stigwood became the manager of a new band comprising three of the best musicians from two groups that he had under contract — guitarist Eric Clapton from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker from The Graham Bond Organisation.