* 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 )

* 1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and coach

* 1966 – Greg Grunberg, American actor

Greg Macainsh and Imants " Freddie " Strauks both attended Norwood High School in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood and formed Spare Parts in 1966 with Macainsh on bass guitar and Strauks on lead vocals.

Greg Grandin remarks that " Washington, of course, publicly denied its support for paramilitarism, but the practice of political disappearances took a great leap forward in Guatemala in 1966 with the birth of a death squad created, and directly supervised, by U. S. security advisors.

* Greg Schiano ( born 1966 ), head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former head coach of Rutgers University .< font color =" blue ">( B )</ font >

Sutton's major league debut was on April 14, 1966, the same day that future 300-game winner Greg Maddux was born.

In both 1966 and 1968, Flair won the state private school wrestling championship and was recruited to the University of Minnesota on a football scholarship, where he played alongside Greg Gagne, the son of Verne Gagne.

* Greg Fulton – builder, 1995 ( major statistician for the CFL from 1966 – 73 and a member of rules committee ).

Gregory Phillip " Greg " Grunberg ( born July 11, 1966 ) is an American television actor.

* Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program Greg Garrison ( 1966 )

All Australians :( 7 total ) 1953: Merv McIntosh, 1956: Keith Harper, 1966 & 1969: Barry Cable, 1969: Greg Brehaut, 1972: Ian Miller, 1986: Robert Wiley

* Greg Smyth ( born 1966 ), ice hockey player

* Greg Davis ( Mississippi politician ) ( born 1966 ), full name Charles G. Davis, mayor of Southaven, Mississippi

In 1966 they recorded the album " I love The Lord " for the Gopsel label and a 45 for the Music City label called " He's Alright " When Vaetta's older brother Sylvester aka Sly Stone formed Sly and the Family Stone with their brother Freddie, and friends Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, and Greg Errico, The Heavenly Tones were recruited directly out of high school to become Little Sister, Sly & the Family Stone's background vocalists for their recording.

The series was created by Belgian cartoonists Greg and Hermann for the comics magazine Tintin, first appearing on January 4, 1966.

Greg Christian ( born April 29, 1966 ) is the bassist for the American thrash metal band Testament.

In October 2009, members of Franklin High School's Bel Canto choir who had undertaken the choir's original European tour of 1966 came together in Seattle in a reunion, the city's mayor, Greg Nickels, declaring 11 October 2009, " Bel Canto Day " in honor of Dr. Richard Kohler, director, and those who participated in that choir's European tour of 1966, " Seattle's ambassadors to the world .."