* 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 )

Karl Schranz running the Lauberhorn in 1966

It is primarily associated with two Swiss professors and pastors, Karl Barth ( 1886 – 1968 ) and Emil Brunner ( 1899 – 1966 ), even though Barth himself expressed his unease in the use of the term.

In reviewing his posthumously published Collected Poems in 1966, Karl Malkoff of The Sewanee Review wrote: Though not definitive, Roethke: Collected Poems is a major book of poetry.

After basic military training in secondary school in 1966, Sankara began his military career at the age of 19, and a year later was sent to Madagascar for officer training at Antsirabe where he witnessed popular uprisings in 1971 and 1972 against the government of Philibert Tsiranana and first read the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, profoundly influencing his political views for the rest of his life.

* Tristan und Isolde ( 1966 ): Conductor: Karl Böhm.

On the other side, the Romanian Academy published some notes by Karl Marx which talk about the " injustice " of the 1812 annexation of Bessarabia and Nicolae Ceauşescu in a 1965 speech quoted a letter by Friedrich Engels in which he criticized the Russian annexation, while in another 1966 speech, he denounced the pre-World War II calls of the Romanian Communist Party for the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Bukovina.

Karl Shapiro ( 1913 – 2000 ), Randall Jarrell ( 1914 – 1965 ) and James Dickey ( 1923 – 1997 ) all wrote poetry that sprang from experience of active service. Together with Elizabeth Bishop ( 1911 – 1979 ), Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) and Delmore Schwartz ( 1913 – 1966 ), they formed a generation of poets that in contrast to the preceding generation often wrote in traditional verse forms.

He was united with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, also a hero of Karl May films, in Gern hab ' ich die Frauen gekillt ( Killer's Carnival ) ( 1966 ).

Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki used to write for Tertangala while studying at the University of Wollongong in the 1960s, and he ran for the position of editor in 1966 but was unsuccessful.

It was founded in 1966 by a group of businessmen led by Karl C. Parrish in the city of Barranquilla.

Initially playing his longtime role of a snarling, goose-stepping Nazi monster heel and sometimes teaming with " brother " Waldo, Fritz turned babyface in late 1966 and began feuding with Gary Hart and his stable of wrestlers ( which at this time included Karl Von Brauner, Al Costello and the masked Spoilers ); the feud between Hart and Fritz ( and his sons ) would continue off and on for more than two decades.

* 1966: Karl Berger Quartet ( ESP-Disk )

The founding members of Die Brücke in 1905 were four Jugendstil architecture students: Fritz Bleyl ( 1880 – 1966 ), Erich Heckel ( 1883 – 1970 ), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ( 1880 – 1938 ) and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1884 – 1976 ).

Karl Schranz winning in 1966

Karl Schranz winning his third Lauberhorn downhill ( of four ) in 1966, beneath the Mönch

In the post-war era, the most notable multiple winners are three Austrians: Toni Sailer with four straight ( 1955 – 58 ), Karl Schranz with four ( 1959, 1963, 1966, 1969 ), and Franz Klammer with three consecutive ( 1975-77 ).

William Claire Menninger ( October 15, 1899 – September 1966 ) was a co-founder with his brother Karl and his father of The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, which is an internationally known center for treatment of behavioral disorders.

Karl Diedrich Bader ( born December 24, 1966 ), better known as Diedrich Bader, is an American actor, voice actor and comedian.

Bader was born Karl Diedrich Bader in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of German-born Gretta Bader, a sculptor, and William B. Bader, a foundation executive who worked in politics .< ref >

John Karl Wetteland ( born August 21, 1966 ) is a retired American Major League Baseball pitcher who specialized as a closer.

The original members were Dutch artists Simon ( Seemon ) Posthuma and Marijke Koger, who were discovered by photographer Karl Ferris among the hippie community on the Spanish island of Ibiza in 1966.

Friedrich " Fritz " Karl Otto Wunderlich ( September 26, 1930 – September 17, 1966 ) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and Italian and German opera and lieder.

It is primarily associated with two Swiss professors and pastors, Karl Barth ( 1886 – 1968 ) and Emil Brunner ( 1899 – 1966 ), even though Barth himself expressed his unease in the use of the term.

Karl Willetts ( born 21 September 1966 ) is a death metal vocalist from England.