* 1966 – Young Man Kang, Korean director

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

* 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 – Jeff Waters, Canadian musician ( Annihilator )

* 1966 – Jeff Bucknum, American race car driver

In 1966, Moon worked with Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, session man Nicky Hopkins, and future Led Zeppelin members Page and John Paul Jones to record an instrumental, " Beck's Bolero ", released as a single-double later that year.

* 1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist ( The Jeff Healey Band ) ( d. 2008 )

* 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician ( d. 1997 )

In Britain, the Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck as their guitarist, increasingly moved into psychedelic territory, adding up-tempo improvised " rave ups ", Gregorian chant and world music ( in particular Indian ) influences to their songs, including " Still I'm Sad " ( 1965 ) and " Over Under Sideways Down " ( 1966 ), and singles such as " Heart Full of Soul " ( 1965 ), " Shapes of Things " ( 1966 ) and " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " ( 1966 ).

* Jeff Pico ( born 1966 ), American baseball player

Meanwhile, working independently, a team led by Douglas Engelbart ( with Jeff Rulifson as chief programmer ) was the first to implement the hyperlink concept for scrolling within a single document ( 1966 ), and soon after for connecting between paragraphs within separate documents ( 1968 ), with NLS.

* Challenge ( 1966, Eyemark Records ; reissued on Emanem Records ) ( featuring ; Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Trevor Watts, Bruce Cale, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens ) ( plus Evan Parker & Chris Cambridge on track 10 )

* Jeff Feagles ( born 1966 ), Punter for the National Football League New York Giants

Jeffrey Scott " Jeff " Buckley ( November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997 ), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Tina recorded the Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry composition, " River Deep-Mountain High ", which failed to chart successfully in the United States after its release in 1966, reaching only # 88.

* Jeff Nelson ( baseball ) ( born 1966 ), retired baseball player

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was founded around 1966 in Long Beach, California by singer-guitarist Jeff Hanna and singer-songwriter guitarist Bruce Kunkel who had performed as the New Coast Two and later the Illegitimate Jug Band.

* Fred Morton and Jeff Ramsay ( eds ) The birth of Botswana: a history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1910 to 1966.

* Binnie Barnes guest starred in two episodes, " Just a Little Wedding " ( 1963 ) and the final episode " By-Line: Jeff Stone " ( 1966 ).

* Jeff Smith ( racing driver ) ( born 1966 ), British racing car driver and businessman

* " Beck's Bolero ," a guitar-based rock instrumental recorded by Jeff Beck in 1966

" Beck's Bolero " is a short, rock-based instrumental piece heavily influenced by Maurice Ravel's Boléro, recorded in May 1966 by Jeff Beck with Jimmy Page ( then a prolific session musician ) on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Keith Moon on drums.

* Jeff Waters ( born 1966 ), Canadian guitarist

* 1966 First one-day ascent of the NW face of Half Dome, with Jeff Foott.