* 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 – Michael Franti, American singer, musician, composer, and poet ( The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy )

* 1966 – Michael Foster, American drummer ( FireHouse )

* 1966 – Michael Park, English race car driver ( d. 2005 )

* 1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert.

* 1966 – Michael Tait, American singer-songwriter and producer ( dc Talk, Tait, and Newsboys )

* 1966 – Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor

Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.

Waters took his information about the date of the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar from the 1966 edition of Michael Coe's The Maya.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* 2005 – Michael Park, English race car driver ( b. 1966 )

* 1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American author

* Polanyi, Michael ( 1966 ), The Tacit Dimension, Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY.

Other portrayals include Malcolm Keen ( Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ), Stephen Murray ( The Prime Minister, 1941 ), Arthur Young ( The Lady with the Lamp, 1951 ), Ralph Richardson ( Khartoum, 1966 ), Graham Chapman ( Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969 ), Michael Hordern ( Edward the Seventh, 1975 ) and Martin Wady ( Queen Victoria's Empire, 2001 ).

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

McMahon was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1966, a Companion of Honour in the New Year's Day Honours of 1972 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1977.

After the release of The IPCRESS File in 1965, Saltzman's production company made Funeral in Berlin ( 1966 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1967 ), both starring Michael Caine.

In 1966 a film version of Funeral in Berlin was made starring Michael Caine and directed by Guy Hamilton.

* Michael Weber ( 1966 – 1991 ), Australian musician ; lead guitarist of punk / indie rock band, Seminal Rats, of Melbourne

He also featured in Michael Reeves's second feature film, The Sorcerers, in 1966.

* Michael Peterson, 1966 – 1985.

In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet ( 1966 ), Keep an Eye on Amélie ( 1973 ), The Cherry Orchard ( 1981 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Ghosts ( with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987 ), Make and Break ( with Robert Hardy, 1987 ), Can You Hear Me Thinking?

In May 1966 they filmed two sets of colour promotional clips for their current single " Rain "/" Paperback Writer " all directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who went on to direct The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus and The Beatles final film Let It Be.

Alfie is a 1966 British film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine.

Abbott's great-grandniece ( and granddaughter of Norman Abbott ), Kathleen Abbott ( aka Lisa Bay ), was born to Chrissy Abbott in 1966, while Chrissy was attending Beverly Hills High School, and is the adopted sister of director Michael Bay.