* 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 – 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 )

He was associate editor on Satellite Science Fiction, 1959 ; on Short Stories, 1959 – 60 ; and on Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine until 1966.

* 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 – Marc Fortier, Canadian ice hockey player

* 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