* 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 – John Wetteland, American baseball player

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

In 1965, the Indians traded pitcher Tommy John, who would go on to win 288 games in his career, and 1966 Rookie of the Year Tommy Agee to the White Sox to get Colavito back.

* Summerson, Sir John, The Classical Language of Architecture MIT Press, 1966.

Time Out was followed by several albums with a similar approach, including Time Further Out: Miro Reflections ( 1961 ), using more 5 / 4, 6 / 4, and 9 / 8, plus the first attempt at 7 / 4 ; Countdown: Time in Outer Space ( dedicated to John Glenn ) ( 1962 ), featuring 11 / 4 and more 7 / 4 ; Time Changes ( 1963 ), with much 3 / 4, 10 / 4 ( which was really 5 + 5 ), and 13 / 4 ; and Time In ( 1966 ).

In 1966, L. J. Lander, T. R. Parkin, and John Selfridge conjectured that if, where a < sub > i </ sub > ≠ b < sub > j </ sub > are positive integers for all 1 ≤ i ≤ n and 1 ≤ j ≤ m, then m + n ≥ k.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

The theory was almost forgotten, but was revived by his student John L. Horn ( 1966 ) who later argued Gf and Gc were only two among several factors, and he eventually identified 9 or 10 broad abilities.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

* John Ford ( wide receiver ) ( born 1966 ), American football player in NFL who attended University of Virginia and was with Detroit Lions during 1989 season

* 1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1966 )

* 1930 – John Lemmon, English logician and philosopher ( d. 1966 )

Seconds ( 1966 ) tells of an elderly man John Randolph given the body of a young man Rock Hudson through experimental surgery.

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

* K. B. McFarlane, The origins of religious dissent in England ( New York, Collier Books, 1966 ) ( Originally published under the title " John Wycliffe and the beginnings of English nonconformity ", 1952 ).

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.

* Springer, John, All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing, New York, 1966

The group never formed, although Page, Beck and Moon did record a song together in 1966, " Beck's Bolero ", in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

* 1966 – John David Cullum, American actor

* 1966 – John Thompson III, American basketball coach

* 1892 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – John Harlin, American mountaineer ( b. 1935 )

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt ( July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966 ) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.