* 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 – Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist

The members began rehearsing as the Versatiles in early 1966 and auditioned for Marc Gordon, who headed Motown's Los Angeles office.

It was soon backed by International Ski Federation ( FIS ) president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.

This innovation began in 1966 by Canadian priest Jean Marc Leclerc and became so popular that it was soon moved from a small church to the Cuernavaca Cathedral.

* Francis: Marc Lebut ( 1966 – 1983 )

* Maurice Tillieux: Gil Jourdan ( 1956 – 1978 ), César ( 1957 – 1973 ), Marc Lebut ( 1966 – 1982 )

* Marc Bureau ( ice hockey ) ( born 1966 ), Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan Idol ( born Marc Anthony Donais, August 10, 1966 ) is an American actor who performed in gay pornographic movies in the 1990s and later onstage in mainstream theater.

He is the oldest of three children: his brother, Marc, was born in 1965, and his sister, Janice, was born in 1966.

Marc Kudisch ( born September 22, 1966 ) is an American stage actor, who is best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway.

Marc Acito ( born January 11, 1966 in Bayonne, New Jersey ) is a United States novelist, humorist, and screenwriter.

After graduating from Earlham College in 1966, she married toxicologist and environmentalist Dr. Marc Lappé in 1967.

* Adrian Dix ( born 1966 ), Canadian politician

* 1966 – André Boisclair, Canadian politician

* 1966 – Brett Gladman, Canadian astronomer

* 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor

* 1966 – Pierre Brassard, Canadian humorist and actor

* 1966 – David Usher, Canadian singer-songwriter ( Moist )

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

* 1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player

* 1966 – Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player

* 1966 – Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1927 – Pierre Mercure, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Jeff Waters, Canadian musician ( Annihilator )

* 1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

In 1966 it became a Canadian High Commission.

* 1966 – Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer ( b. 1927 )

* 1966 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater

* 1966 – Shawn Burr, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Kelley Law, Canadian curler

* 1966 – Robin Burgener, Canadian programmer, inventor of 20Q