* 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 )

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

In 1966, James Bevel, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Raby led the Chicago Open Housing Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders.

* 1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.

* Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Richard II and Henry V. The movie, also known as Falstaff, features Welles himself in the title role.

* 1937 – Richard Farina, American folksinger ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist ( Guns N ' Roses )

* Richard Layton Butler ( 1885 – 1966 ), Australian politician, Premier of South Australia

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 ) d. Richard Lester

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

He had five children by his first wife — Richard ( 1889 – 1968 ), Mair ( 1890 – 1907, who died during an appendectomy ), Olwen ( 1892 – 1990 ), Gwilym ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Megan ( 1902 – 1966 ) — and possibly one child by Stevenson, a girl named Jennifer ( 1929 – 2012 ).

* 1966: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart

* Richard Langton Gregory, Experimental Psychologist ( neuropsychology, visual perception ), author of Eye and Brain ( 1966 )

* The Richard Wagner Museum at Wahnfried House was the residence of Richard Wagner and his family's home until 1966.

It was used for the last time in West Germany in 1949 ( in the execution of Richard Schuh ) and in East Germany in 1966 ( in the execution of Horst Fischer ).

* Current, Richard N. John C. Calhoun ( 1966 ), short biography by a scholar

The idea for the Gremlin began in 1966 when design chief at American Motors, Richard A. Teague, and stylist Bob Nixon discussed the possibility of a shortened version of AMC's compact car and design sketches were prepared by Nixon.

* Mrs Wilson's 2nd Diary Richard Ingrams and John Wells ( Rushton illustrations only ) ( Private Eye, 1966 )

* Mrs Wilson ’ s Diaries ( omnibus of first two books with a few additional drawings ) Richard Ingrams and John Wells ( Sphere, 1966 )

* Richard Declerck ( 1946 – 1966 )

* Richard Pasco in the British television series " The Three Musketeers " ( 1966 )

* The protagonist ( Gnossos Pappadopoulis ) in Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.

Douglas Richard " Doug " TenNapel ( born July 10, 1966 in Norwalk, California ) is an American musician, animator, Eisner Award-winning artist, author and essayist.

* Richard Popplewell LVO 1958 – 1966 ( subsequently Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal )